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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

... "Lack-a-day! what have I forgot!" said Avice as Bertha drew up her stool and unfolded the apron she was making. "I thought to have asked Nora Goldhue for a sprig of betony, or else purslane. 'Tis o'er late to-night, and verily I am too weary to go ...

— Our Little Lady - Six Hundred Years Ago • Emily Sarah Holt

... lack, as I said above, every kind of iron; they are also without weapons, which indeed are unknown; nor are they competent to use them, not on account of deformity of body, for they are well formed, but because they are timid and full of fear. They carry for weapons, however, reeds baked ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson

... say, a so-galled voe - for he feeled id in his soul Dat de brinciples vitch mofed dem vere de same oopon de whole; But he lack a vord to exbress dem in manners opportunes"- Here a veller in de gallery gry oud, ...

— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland

... that Shelley was not quite sane; and certainly he was not quite sane, if we place sanity in justness of external perception, adaptation to matter, and docility to the facts; but his lack of sanity was not due to any internal corruption; it was not even an internal eccentricity. He was like a child, like a Platonic soul just fallen from the Empyrean; and the child may be dazed, credulous, and fanciful; but he is not mad. On the contrary, his earnest playfulness, ...

— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana

... delicate artist of the fifteenth century and designed to reflect the charms of some Mona Amorrosisca or some Laldomine. Many a time in the old happy days Elena had put on her veil in front of this dim, lack lustre mirror. ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

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