the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being slim.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Slim character or appearance; slenderness.
n. The character of being ‘slim’ or sly; craftiness. See slim.
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n. a small margin
n. the property of an attractively thin person
Word Usage
"In America this ideal of masculine slimness is explained by our fondness for thinking of our men as lean wrestlers with frontier conditions, for the fact of a frontier is still a pleasant figment of our fancy."