LACK
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Lack (lăk), n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. leán.] 1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
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She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
Chaucer.
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Let his lack of years be no impediment.
Shak.
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Lack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lacked (lăkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacking.] 1. To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.]
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Love them and lakke them not.
Piers Plowman.
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2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
James i. 5.
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Lack, v. i. 1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
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What hour now?
I think it lacks of twelve.
Shak.
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Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
Gen. xvii. 28.
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2. To be in want.
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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
Ps. xxxiv. 10.
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Lack, interj. [Cf. Alack.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] Cowper.
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