a. Obs. Also 5 leney. [f. LEAN a. + -Y1.] Lean.

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14[?].  Noble Bk. Cookry (Napier, 1882), 95. Take leney beef and cut it in thyn lesks.

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1579.  Spenser, Sheph. Cal., July, 199. They han fatte kernes, and leany knaues.

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1602.  Davison, Rhapsody (1611), 39. Thou leany flocke that didst of late lament.

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