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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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... retrace their steps over the mountains, owing to the weakened condition of the prisoners and the lack of food. Their only chance for self-preservation and a possible return to civilization lay in carrying out Gilmore's designs to build bamboo rafts and float down the river to the sea. This was done. In going over rapids and water-falls, many rafts ...

— The Woman with a Stone Heart - A Romance of the Philippine War • Oscar William Coursey

... Community. Protest against dominance resulted, however, in divisions, and although cooperation in practical activities has done much to prepare the way for national understanding, the hostile forces of the world to-day lack the restraint which might have come from a united moral sentiment and ...

— The Ethics of Coperation • James Hayden Tufts

... They came to anchor off Constantinople, and while there some attempts at negociation were renewed on shore. These negociations, however, were all rendered abortive, partly by the skill of the French envoy, Sebastiani; partly by the lack of ability in our ambassador, Mr. Arbuthnot; partly by the victories that Napoleon was gaining over the Austrians and Russians; and partly by the neutral ground which the Austrian envoy took, and ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... insuperable difficulty in case of war was the lack of a navy. A navy could not be built in a day, or a year or two years, were the resources of the Confederacy boundless. The ships of war now in the possession of the United States were of incalculable power in such a crisis. The South was cut in every quarter by navigable ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... again, though there was no malice behind their humor; it was merely that they found the lack of a language in common a mirth-provoking circumstance. Marietta, with a flash of black eyes, murmured something very kindly in Italian, as she shook out a linen sailor suit—the exact twin of the one that had gone to sea—and spread it on ...

— Jerry Junior • Jean Webster

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