Definition of "lean-faced" [lean•-faced]

• Having a thin face. (adjective)
• Slender or narrow; -- said of type the letters of which have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "A solemn, lean-faced man in his fifties stood with his arms crossed, staring at the substation."
• "He alone had no war-bonnet or feathers, or anything but a coloured shirt; he was young and wiry, lean-faced and lank-haired and without paint-but with those eyes he didn't need any."
• "Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair."