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   { Lac , ‖Lakh  }, n. [Hind. lak, lākh, lāksh, Skr. laksha a mark, sign, lakh.] One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees. [Written also lack.] [East Indies]
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   Lack , n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. leán.]
   Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
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   She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Let his lack of years be no impediment.
   Shak.
   
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   Lack, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lacked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lacking.]
   To blame; to find fault with. [Obs.]
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   Love them and lakke them not.
   Piers Plowman.
   
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   To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
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   If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
   James i. 5.
   
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   Lack, v. i.
   To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
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   What hour now?
   I think it lacks of twelve.
   Shak.
   
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   Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
   Gen. xvii. 28.
   
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   To be in want.
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   The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
   Ps. xxxiv. 10.
   
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   Lack, interj. [Cf. Alack.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.]
   Cowper.
   
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