Dietaries differed, here too ample, there meagre to starvation.
His parents were poor, and he received a meagre education, but made up for it by careful self-culture.
The earlier history of the place is meagre.
He has passed far beyond the bald and meagre diction of the early chroniclers.
The meagre data given by ancient writers are collected by Busolt and Marshall.
