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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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"Lack" Quotes from Famous Books

... love which mostly destinates our life. What makes the world in after life I know not, For our horizon alters as we age; Power only can make up for the lack of love— Power of some sort. The mind at one time grows So fast, it fails; and then its stretch is more Than its strength; but, as it opes, love fills it up, Like to the stamen in the flower of life, Till for the time we well-nigh grow ...

— Dawn • Mrs. Harriet A. Adams

... fortified house, and charged on the batteries before the second column could come to their aid. Ten guns were captured. The American army was utterly routed, and fled through and beyond the city it was to defend. The lack of cavalry and the intense heat of the day prevented the pursuit by the British. The brilliant action was saddened to the victors by the loss of sixty-one gallant men slain and ...

— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow

... with wild, staring but lack-luster eyes and open mouth. He rose from the floor, and casting a look of great benignity on the sullen brute, he was about to go, when he observed that Robinson was trembling ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... neighbor, is often interpreted as simply a violation of one's oath in court, or when appended to formal legal papers. But in most modern countries the command is also interpreted so as to include lying. If this crime is defined in its broadest sense, as lack of truth and trustworthiness, it is in many ways the greatest sin man can commit against society. Practically all modern economic and social relations are based upon the security of contracts and upon the readiness of business men and citizens ...

— The Making of a Nation - The Beginnings of Israel's History • Charles Foster Kent and Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

... incessantly, we encamped near the end of the pass at the mouth of a small creek, in sight of the great Laramie plains. It continued to rain heavily, and at evening the mountains were hid in mists; but there was no lack of wood, and the large fires we made to dry our clothes were very comfortable; and at night the hunters came in with a fine deer. Rough and difficult as we found the pass to-day, an excellent road may be made with a little labor. Elevation of the camp 5,540 feet, ...

— The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California • Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont

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