Both Uses of
gaunt
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Utterson of Gaunt Street—you must have heard my name; and meeting you so conveniently, I thought you might admit me.†
p. 18.0
- It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.†
p. 35.8 *
Definition:
very thin and bony -- often from hunger or as though having been worn to the bone