LACK, LACKING
ADJECTIVES
..825 ► WANE lacking, absent, deficient → obs.
1540 ► DEFICIOUS deficient, lacking → obs.
1790 ► LACK deficient in some quality, lacking in substance, position, breeding, etc.; of poor quality → Sc. obs.
..19C ► MINUS lacking, bereft of
1821 ► SAKELESS lacking, destitute of → Sc.
1982 ► LACK lacking money, style, or both → Hawaiian youth sl.
1984 ► NOT THE FULL QUID lacking → NZ sl.
1990 ► A DAY LATE AND A DIME SHORT inadequate; overdue and lacking; too little too late → Amer. sl.
1990 ► A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT inadequate; overdue and lacking; too little too late → Amer. sl.
1990 ► ON E lacking, usually but not invariably money → African-American sl.
NOUNS
..888 ► WANE want, lack, shortage, absence of → obs.
1300 ► DEFAILING deficiency, lack, shortage → 1502 bs.
1300 ► DEFAULT absence of something wanted; want, lack, scarcity of → obs.
1300 ► FAULT deficiency, lack, scarcity, want of; want of food or necessaries → obs.
1650 ► INLAKE a deficiency, lack → Sc. obs.
1718 ► MANK a deficiency, a want, a lack → Sc. obs.
1815 ► GRUTCH want, lack, scarcity → obs.
1841 ► SCANT scantiness, scarcity, lack → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1902 ► INGANG lack, deficiency → Sc. (Bk.)
1990 ► THE HOLE IN THE DOUGHNUT what is lacking; an obstacle of omission → US sl.
VERBS
1300 ► WANE to come short of, to lack → 1300 obs.
1377 ► FAULT to stand in need of; to lack, to want; to be deficient in → obs.
1400 ► DEFAIL to be insufficient, to be wanting, to lack → obs.
1463 ► WALTER to be without, to lack → Sc. obs.
1504 ► FAULT to be deficient in; to be lacking in → obs.
1610 ► INLAKE to be deficient, to lack → Sc. obs.
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