Gaunt (?), a. [Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man, and W. gwan weak.]
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
"The
gaunt mastiff."
Pope.
A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land.
Nichols.
© Webster 1913.