meagry

English

Adjective

meagry

  1. (rare, archaic) Meager looking.
    • 1603, Thomas Dekker, The Wonderfull yeare.‎:
      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

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