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meagre

noun
/ˈmiːɡɚ/

Etymology

From Middle English megre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, macrum, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Old English mæġer (“meagre, lean”), Dutch mager (“lean”), German mager (“lean”), Icelandic magur (“lean”).

  1. derived from *mh₂ḱrós✻
  2. derived from macer
  3. derived from maigre
  4. derived from megre
  5. inherited from megre

Definitions

  1. An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the…

    An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.

    • It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.
    • Meagres (Argyrosomus regius, 230 cm, 103 kg) have been raised mainly in Spain, France and Italy.

  2. Having little flesh

    Having little flesh; lean; thin.

    • […]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:

  3. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

    • Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
    • He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
    • His education had been but meagre.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Of a set

      Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.

    2. Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).

    3. To make lean.

      • I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at meagre. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at meagre. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at meagre

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA