meagry
English
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- (rare, archaic) Meager looking.
- 1603, Thomas Dekker, The Wonderfull yeare.[1]:
- at length she fell in labour, and was deliuered of a pale, meagry, weake child, named Sicknesse, whom Death (with a pestilence) would needes take vpon him to nurse, and did so.
- 1974, Theater der Zeit - Volume 29, page 61:
- Cities consumed, forests set in fire, the meagry by the meagry were devoured The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect