Thin /(?)/

1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
2. Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.

   In the day, when the air is more thin.

   Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused.

3. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.

   Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.

4. Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.

   Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east wind.

5. Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
6. Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

   Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.

7. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.

   My tale is done, for my wit is but thin.

1. Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.

   Spain is thin sown of people.

imp. & p. p. Thinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinning

1. To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

1. To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.