macer (the proper word; opposed to pinguis; not fleshy or fat; also of the soil): strigosus, strigosi corporis (not corpulent; opposed to obesus): gracilis (slim, slender, lank; opposed to obesus: of men or animals; also of parts of men or animals): exilis (thin, not plump, of parts of men or animals; opposed to plenus; also of the soil, and figuratively, of a writing or of a speech); (The words are found in this connection and order.) exilis et macer; aridus (of food, without nourishment, and of the soil; also, figuratively, empty, poor; opposed to copiosus): sterilis (opposed to fertilis): somewhat meagre, macilentus: a meagre treatise, libellus exilis: a meagre subject (for treating of), res jejuna (opposed to copiosa): to make meagre, facere (ut) macrescat aliquis (a living being): emaciare (also the soil; ☞ miciare occurs first in Solinus): to grow or become meagre, macescere, emacescere (of living beings, parts of the body, and of the soil): macrescere, emacrescere (only of living beings): meagre fare, victus aridus (not nutritious): victus tenuis (scanty): ☞ not famelicus, which Muretus uses in this sense.