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- verb Obsolete spelling of
lack .
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Examples
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That this letel little englane, shold lacke a right heire:
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That didn't sit right with me, and not because of any religious beliefs or lacke thereof.
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That this letel little englane, shold lacke a right heire:
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Where in confirmyng of our promise, we vse to strike handes (as we calle it) thei vse to drincke one to another: or elles if thei lacke liquour, to take duste fro the earth, and one to licke part of that to another.
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But these men at the firste voide of all helpe and experience of liuyng, ware bittrely pinched with hongre and colde, before thei could learne to reserue the superfluous plenty of the Somer, to supply the lacke of
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Their children in their infancie, are not nourished vp at the libertie and will of the parentes: but certeine there are appointed to viewe the children: whiche yf thei spie vntowardnes in the infante, deformitie, or lacke of lymmes, commande it to be slayne.
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To suche as lacke money thei lende, but for shamefull gaines: that is to saie, two shillynges of the pounde for euery Monethe.
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Whiche they neuertheles for lacke of knowledge do neuer fine into masse.
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Thei haue no maner of speache emong them: But onely shewe by signes of the hande, and nodding with the heade, what they lacke, and what they would haue.
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In the which thei ware sore troubled, and harde bestadde,30 for lacke of water.
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