Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Lack"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lac \Lac\, Lakh \Lakh\, n. [Hind. lak, l[=a]kh, l[=a]ksh, Skr.
laksha a mark, sign, lakh.]
One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac
of rupees. [Written also {lack}.] [East Indies]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lack \Lack\, n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame,
OHG. lahan, AS. le['a]n.]
1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack
of sufficient food.
She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
--Chaucer.
Let his lack of years be no impediment. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lack \Lack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lacked}; 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lack \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. --Shak.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lack \Lack\, interj. [Cf. {Alack}.]
Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lack
n : the state of needing something that is absent or
unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the
problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert
regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: {deficiency},
{want}]
v 1: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something
missing in my jewellery box!" [syn: {miss}] [ant: {have}]
2: be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want
the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food
and shelter" [syn: {want}]
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