What is the name meaning of LEAN. Phrases containing LEAN
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LEAN
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Native American
Lean bear.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a pass or narrow valley, from Old English hraca ‘throat’, or a habitational name from any of the minor places deriving their name from this word, such as Rake in Devon or The Rake in Sussex.English and Dutch : from Middle English, Middle Dutch rake ‘rake’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such implements or as a nickname for a tall thin man. (The expression ‘lean as a rake’ is found in Chaucer.)
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French, German, Greek
Lion-man; Form of Leander; Brave as a Lion
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Scottish
Scottish : nickname for a fair-haired person, from Gaelic bà n ‘white’, ‘fair’. This is a common name in the Highlands, first recorded in Perth in 1324.Northern English : nickname meaning ‘bone’, probably bestowed on an exceptionally tall, lean man, from Old English bÄn ‘bone’. In northern Middle English -Ä- was preserved, whereas in southern dialects (which later became standard), it was changed to -Å-.Northern English : nickname for a hospitable person, from northern Middle English beyn, bayn ‘welcoming’, ‘friendly’ (Old Norse beinn ‘straight’, ‘direct’).English and French : metonymic occupational name for an attendant at a public bath house, from Middle English, Old French baine ‘bath’.French : topographic name for someone who lived by a Roman bath, from Old French baine ‘bath’ or a habitational name from a place in Ille-et-Vilaine, named with this word.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Behn.George Luke Scobie Bain (1836–91) was born in Stirling, Scotland. He ran away to sea and successively lived and worked in Portland, ME, Chicago, and St. Louis, where he was a miller and flour merchant and a very prominent citizen.
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Tamil
One with musical leanings
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English American
A compound of Lee: wood, and Anne: grace, favour. Can also be a : downy, hairy. Can also be...
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Italian
Italian, Portuguese and Spanish form of Latin Leander, LEANDRO means "lion-man."Â
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English
English : from an Old Norse personal name or byname, Skragg, related to Norwegian dialect skragg ‘a shriveled, wretched person’, and English scraggy ‘lean’, ‘skinny’.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from ‘The Leen’ (earlier Leon, ‘at the streams’) in Hereford or the Leen river in Nottinghamshire. Both are derived from a Celtic root verb lei- ‘flow’ (for example as in Welsh lliant ‘stream’).English : variant spelling of Lean.
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Norse
Son in law of Helgi the Lean.
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Biblical
Secret, leanness.
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English
Form of Leander. Lionlike man.
Female
English
Short form of Latin Eleanora, LEANORA means "foreign; the other."
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English (chiefly Devon)
English (chiefly Devon) : nickname for a thin or lean person, from Middle English lene ‘lean’ (Old English hlǣne).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Liatháin (see Lehane).Reduced form of Scottish McLean.
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Indian
One with musical leanings
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Indian
Young, New, Novel, Innovative, Quite new, Fresh, Modern, A sakta notable for his great leaning and spiritual attainment
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French
Form of Leander. 'Lionlike man.
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Greek American Latin
Feminine of Leander. Lioness.
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Indian
Young, New, Novel, Innovative, Quite new, Fresh, Modern, A sakta notable for his great leaning and spiritual attainment
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British, English
Form of Leander; Lion-like Man
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Tamil
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Indian, Tamil
Talented
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Biblical
Totality, or the perfection of the father'.
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English
English : variant of Willman.
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German
German : unexplained. Perhaps a Germanized form of Czech Kurka.English : variant spelling of Kirk.
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Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Tamil
God Raman
Female
Hebrew
(×Ö·×žÖ´×™× Ö¸×”) Hebrew name AMINA means "faithful, trusted." Compare with another form of Amina.
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Hindu, Indian
He who Wins the Struggle in African Speaking Countries; Of Noble Birth
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Sikh
The light of the battlefield
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Kay, KAE means "lord." Compare with feminine Kae.
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LEAN
n.
The condition or quality of being lean.
v. i.
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
a.
Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Lean
v. i.
To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
v. i.
To lean or incline upon anything.
v. i.
To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.
n.
A lean-to. See Lean-to.
v. i.
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
imp. & p. p.
of Lean
a.
Lean.
superl.
Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
v. i.
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
v. i.
To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
v. i.
Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
n.
The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
v. i.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
a.
To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
v. i.
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.