slender means — index poverty Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Slender Means Society — Infobox record label name = Slender Means Society image bg = parent = founded = 2004 founder = Zac Pennington defunct = distributor = genre = Pop, etc. country = United States location = Portland, Oregon url =… … Wikipedia
The Girls of Slender Means — infobox Book | name = The Girls of Slender Means title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Muriel Spark cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = publisher = Macmillan Publishers release date … Wikipedia
Slender — Slen der, a. [Compar. {Slenderer}; superl. {Slenderest}.] [OE. slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen, slidderen, to creep; perh. akin to E. slide.] 1. Small or narrow in proportion to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
slender — adjective Etymology: Middle English sclendre, slendre, from Anglo French esclendre Date: 14th century 1. a. spare in frame or flesh; especially gracefully slight b. small or narrow in circumference or width in proportion to length or height 2.… … New Collegiate Dictionary
slender — adjective (slenderer, slenderest) 1》 gracefully thin. 2》 barely sufficient: people of slender means. Derivatives slenderize or slenderise verb (chiefly N. Amer.). slenderly adverb slenderness noun … English new terms dictionary
Slender-billed Curlew — Illustration from ca 1830 Conservation status … Wikipedia
means — noun 1 method of doing sth ADJECTIVE ▪ appropriate, convenient, effective, efficient, reliable, useful ▪ an effective means of mass communication ▪ … Collocations dictionary
slender — adj. 1 thin in an attractive way VERBS ▪ be, look ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ Those jeans make you look v … Collocations dictionary
By all means — Mean Mean, n. 1. That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure. [1913 Webster] But to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
