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noun

Lakh, Lac n. (Written also lack) One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. (East Indies)

Lack n.

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. (Obs.)

Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. "She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood." "Let his lack of years be no impediment."

verb

Lack v. t. (past & past part. lacked; pres. part. lacking)

To blame; to find fault with. (Obs.) "Love them and lakke them not."

To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God."

Lack v. i.

To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. "What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve." "Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty."

To be in want. "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger."

interjection

Lack interj. Exclamation of regret or surprise. (Prov. Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Lack'

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"Lack" Quotes from Famous Books

... is the reason, Ruth, my lack of faith on this point. If I consecrated all but my money to the Lord, I might fear, for it would not bring happiness with it, but God's grace can dim even the shining of gold to the Christian, so that neither the eye nor the heart may be held ...

— 'Our guy' - or, The elder brother • Mrs. E. E. Boyd

... nearest resembling shell in Sowerby is the Ostrea acuminata,—an oyster of the clay that underlies the great Oolite of Bath. Few of the shells exceed an inch and a half in length, and the majority fall short of an inch. What they lack in bulk, however, they make up in number. They are massed as thickly together, to the depth of several feet, as shells on the heap at the door of a Newhaven fisherman, and extend over many acres. Where they lie open we can still detect the triangular disc of the hinge, with the single impression ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... of the country, after his brother's death, had not been placed in his hands; and, as reported by some, he was now meditating schemes for getting possession of it. Vaca de Castro well knew that there would be no lack of evil counsellors to urge Gonzalo to this desperate step; and, anxious to extinguish the spark of insurrection before it had been fanned by these turbulent spirits into a flame, he detached a strong body to Lima to secure that capital. At the same ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

... Wherein no lack of flowers the verdurous night With stars and pearly nebula o'erlay; Azalea-boughs half rosy and half white Shine through the green and clustering apple-spray, Such as the fairy-queen before her knight Waved in old story, luring him away ...

— Poems • Alan Seeger

... discovered at a Christmas party that you cannot stand with your left side close against a wall and then lift your right leg, his first impulse was to confront Mr Gale with the trick. When Mr Gale read in a facetious paper an article on the lack of accurate observation in the average man, entitled, "Do 'bus horses wear blinkers?" his opening remark to Mr Sandbach at their next meeting was: "I say, Sandbach, do 'bus horses wear blinkers? Answer quick!" ...

— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett

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