lack : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lack	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for lack
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): lack, deficiency, want v be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!" Synonym(s): miss, lack Antonym(s): feature, have
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lac \Lac\, d8Lakh \[d8]Lakh\, n. [Hind. lak, l[be]kh, l[be]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\, 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\, n. [OE. lak; cf. D. lak slander, laken to blame, OHG. lahan, AS. le[a0]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\, interj. [Cf. {Alack}.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov. Eng.] --Cowper.