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Webster 1913 Edition
Lack
Lack
(lăk)
, Noun.
[OE.
lak
; cf. D. lak
slander, laken
to blame, OHG. lahan
, AS. leán
.] 1.
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure;
as, a
. lack
of sufficient foodShe swooneth now and now for
lakke
of blood. Chaucer.
Let his
lack
of years be no impediment. Shakespeare
Lack
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Lacked
(lăkt)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lacking
.] 1.
To blame; to find fault with.
[Obs.]
Love them and
lakke
them not. Piers Plowman.
2.
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
If any of you
lack
wisdom, let him ask of God. James i. 5.
Lack
,Verb.
I.
1.
To be wanting; often, impersonally, with
of
, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. What hour now?
I think it
I think it
lacks
of twelve. Shakespeare
Peradventure there shall
lack
five of the fifty. Gen. xvii. 28.
2.
To be in want.
The young lions do
lack
, and suffer hunger. Ps. xxxiv. 10.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lack
LACK
,Verb.
T.
1.
To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess.If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask it of God - James 1.
2.
To blame. [Not in use.]LACK
,Verb.
I.
1.
To be in want.The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. Ps. 34.
2.
To be wanting.Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous.
Gen. 18.
LACK
,Noun.
He that gathered little, had no lack. Ex. 14.
Lack of rupees is one hundred thousand rupees, which at 55 cents each, amount to fifty five thousand dollars, or at 2s. 6d. sterling, to 12,500 pounds.
Definition 2024
Lack
Lack
lack
lack
English
Noun
lack (plural lacks)
- (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
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- A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
- Shakespeare
- Let his lack of years be no impediment.
- 1994, Green Day, Basket Case
- I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.
- 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
- If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.
- Shakespeare
Antonyms
Translations
deficiency, need
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Verb
lack (third-person singular simple present lacks, present participle lacking, simple past and past participle lacked)
- (transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
- My life lacks excitement.
- (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
- He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
- Shakespeare
- What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
- (intransitive) To be in want.
- Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
- The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
- Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
- (obsolete) To see the ‘lack’ in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Translations
be without, need, require
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