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THIN, a. L. tenuis Gr. narrow.

1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to the opposite as a thin plate of metal thin paper a thin board a thin covering.

2. Rare not dense applied to fluids or to soft mixtures as thin blood thin milk thin air.

In the day, when the air is more thin.

3. Not close not crowded not filling the space not having the individuals that compose the thing in a close or compact state as, the trees of a forest are thin the corn or grass is thin. A thin audience in church is not uncommon. Important legislative business should not be transacted in a thin house.

4. Not full or well grown.

Seven thin ears. Genesis 41

5. Slim small slender lean. A person becomes thin by disease. Some animals are naturally thin.

6. Exile small fine not full.

Thin hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.

7. Not thick or close of a loose texture not impervious to the sight as a thin vail.

8. Not crowded or well stocked not abounding.

Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.

9. Slight not sufficient for a covering as a thin disguise.

THIN, adv. Not thickly or closely in a scattered state as seed sown thin.

Spain is thin sown as people.

THIN, L. tenuo. See Attenuate.

1. To make thin to make rare or less thick to attenuate as, to thin the blood.

2. To make less close, crowded or numerous as, to thin the ranks of an enemy to thin the trees or shrubs of a thicket.

3. To attenuate to rarefy to make less dense as, to thin the air to thin the vapors.