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Definition of Meagres

Meagre
Meager Mea"ger, Meagre Mea"gre, v. t. To make lean. [Obs.]
Meagre
Meagre Mea"gre, n. [F. maigre.] (Zo["o]l.) A large European sci[ae]noid fish (Sci[ae]na umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maigre.]
Meagre
Meager Mea"ger, Meagre Mea"gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. ? long. Cf. Emaciate, Maigre.] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. --Shak. 2. Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. ``Meager soil.' --Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. --I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. --Motley. 3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren.

Meaning of Meagres from wikipedia

- subsets; that is, any subset of a meagre set is meagre, and the union of countably many meagre sets is meagre. Meagre sets play an important role in the...
- The brown meagre or corb (Sciaena umbra) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. This species...
- The Meagre Company, or The Company of Captain Reinier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw, refers to the only militia group portrait, or schutterstuk...
- Look up meager or meagre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meager or Meagre may refer to: James Meager (born 1986 or 1987), New Zealand politician Lee...
- Argyrosomus regius, also known as the meagre, croaker, jewfish, shade-fish, sowa, kir, corvina, salmon-b**** or stone b****, is a species of fish of the...
- (****anese meagre) Argyrosomus regius (****o y del Rio, 1801) (Meagre) Argyrosomus thorpei M. M. Smith, 1977 (Squaretail kob) Argyrosomus meagres have a fairly...
- have familial support. They were required to work without pay apart from meagre food provisions, while the institutions operated large commercial laundries...
- describes the organization's mandate as "broad and vague", with only "meagre" resources to carry it out. In 2006, it was replaced by a Human Rights Council...
- is owned by the Kolkata Improvement Trust and have refused to accept a meagre amount of ₹30 paid as rent throughout the years without any increment in...
- his 1899 thesis. The definition that follows is based on the notions of meagre (or first category) set (namely, a set that is a countable union of sets...