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Lacking   /lˈækɪŋ/   Listen
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Lack  v. t.  (past & past part. lacked; pres. part. lacking)  
1.
To blame; to find fault with. (Obs.) "Love them and lakke them not."
2.
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God."


Lack  v. i.  
1.
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."
2.
To be in want. "The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger."





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"Lacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... beaten me, always saying that it was wrong to beat an apprentice, and that those who so did were lacking in their senses. And this is but another proof of his sorcery, for who, other than a sorcerer, could handle his servants without ...
— Indirection • Everett B. Cole
... gives the flautist. There is a fragmentary cantilena which would make the fortune of a comic opera. The third number, "In October," is particularly welcome in our music, which is strangely and sadly lacking in humor. There is fascinating wit throughout this harvest revel. "The Shepherdess' Song" is the fourth movement. It is not precieuse, and it is not banal; but its simplicity of pathos is a whit too simple. The final ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes
... country folks, did these two. They examined the surroundings, consulted together—sixty pounds rent a year seemed very high! But they took the house, and T. Carlyle, son of James Carlyle, stone-mason, paid rent for it every month for half a century, lacking three years. ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard
... this almost universal custom, which for all its ingenuity would seem almost too long-suffering and mercantile. May we attribute it to the foresight of the chiefs? We find it in races among whom authority might almost be said to be entirely lacking. Did it originate among the old men, the thinkers, the sages, of the primitive groups? That is not more probable. For underlying this custom there is a thought which is at the same time higher and lower than could be the thought of an isolated prophet or genius of those barbarous ...
— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck
... life of ours must hang answerless to the crack of doom if you deny it standing-room. I knew no more than I have set down here of Margery's besetment; nay, I had every reason Richard Jennifer had to believe that she was well and well content, lacking nothing, save, mayhap, the freedom to ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde


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