Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gaunt \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.

Source : WordNet®

gaunt
     adj : very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
           "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of
           gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and
           cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his
           wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: {bony},
           {cadaverous}, {emaciated}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal},
            {wasted}]