lack

Definitions

1. 1.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.
2. 2.To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] Love them and lakke them not. Piers Plowman.
3. 3.To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. James i.
4. 4.1. 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.
5. 5.2. To be in want. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. Ps. xxxiv.
6. 6.Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] Cowper.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is 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 called?
• What is to blame; to find fault with. [Obs.] Love them and lakke them not. Piers Plowman called?
• What is to be without or destitute of; to want; to need. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. James i called?
• What is 2. To be in want. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger. Ps. xxxiv called?
• What is exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] Cowper called?