Slender /(?)/
Slen·der
Slender
a.
-
Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
She, as a veil down to the slender waist, Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
-
Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
Mighty hearts are held in slender chains.
They have inferred much from slender premises.
The slender utterance of the consonants.
-
Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
A slender degree of patience will enable him to enjoy both the humor and the pathos.
-
Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
Frequent begging makes slender alms.
-
Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
The good Ostorius often deigned To grace my slender table with his presence.
- Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. (Phon.)