thinest

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering. [1913 Webster]

2.Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

In the day, when the air is more thin.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. [1913 Webster]

Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

4.Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. [1913 Webster]

Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east wind.— Gen. xli. 6.[1913 Webster]

5.Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease. [1913 Webster]

6.Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. [1913 Webster]

Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

7.Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. [1913 Webster]

My tale is done, for my wit is but thin.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

Note: Thin is used in the formation of compounds which are mostly self-explaining; as, thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-peopled, thin-shelled, and the like. [1913 Webster]

Thin section. See under Section. [1913 Webster]