Lack — Defs

01 n. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

1.
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.[Obs.]
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.

02 v. t. To blame; to find fault with.

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.

03 v. i. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.

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.

04 interj. Exclamation of regret or surprise.