lean vb. (physical senses, trans. and intr., occur)
1.
to rely or depend “on”
Meas. II. i. 49
(quibble), 2H4 I. i. 164 [their]
“lives . . . Lean on
your health,”
Troil. III. iii. 85,
Ham. IV. iii. 60
“every thing . . . That
else leans on the affair.”
2.
to defer
Cym. I. i. 78
“lean'd unto his
sentence.”
