All 3 Uses of
meager
in
Gulliver's Travels
- The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places.†
Chpt 3 *meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
- His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.†
Chpt 3
- That a weak diseased body, a meagre countenance, and sallow complexion, are the true marks of noble blood; and a healthy robust appearance is so disgraceful in a man of quality, that the world concludes his real father to have been a groom or a coachman.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(meager) lacking in quantity or quality
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.