A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
Archaic form of lakh.
a lack of rupees
From Middle English lack, lakke, lak, from Old English *læc (“deficiency, lack, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *lak, from Proto-Germanic *laką, *lakaz (“slackness”), from Proto-Germanic *lakaz (“lim...
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He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
To be in want.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger […]