Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To belittle; disparage; depreciate.
- To lack; to be without.
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Examples
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Page 107 of mind must all centre in a servant commissioned and sent forth an ambassador for Christ, no one of these qualities must be lacken, or it disqualifies the whole man for one of the greatest mission ever committed to men or angels!
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"Simme them folk must be lacken 'their senses," said one to the other, "carlen '
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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Sim'me that when the law lets a man like that come shoven 'and meddlen' in a woman's house that the law's lacken 'its senses too! "
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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