exiguity &c (little) 193.
line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.
monolayer; epitaxial deposition [Eng.].
thinness &c adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency†, marcor†.
shaving, slip &c (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow,
anatomy, spindleshanks†, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.
middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp,
hourglass; ridge, ghaut†, ghat†, pass; ravine &c 198.
narrowing, coarctation†, angustation†, tapering; contraction &c
195.
V. be narrow &c adj.; narrow, taper, contract &c 195; render narrow &c
adj.; waste away.
Adj. narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like &c (filament) 205;
finespun†, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant,
scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious†; contracted &c 195; unexpanded &c
(expand) &c 194 [Obs.]; slender as a thread.
[in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager,
gaunt, macilent†; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.];
starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake
[Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer;
hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.
attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid†, marcid†, barebone,
rawboned.
monomolecular.