A lean or emaciated person (Leviticus 21:20).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

2. (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.

3. (v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.