gaunt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gaunt	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for gaunt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
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. [bd]The gaunt mastiff.[b8] --Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. --Nichols.