Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gaunt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gaunt \Gaunt\, a. [Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall
and thin man, and W. gwan weak.]
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager;
pinched and grim. ``The gaunt mastiff.'' --Pope.
A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and
fleshless across our land. --Nichols.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gaunt
adj : very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of
gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; kept life in his
wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: {bony},
{cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal},
{wasted}]
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