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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[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.