Lack
Lack (lak) , noun
[Old English lak; compare Dutch lak slander, laken to blame, Old High German lahan, Anglo-Saxon leán.]
1.
Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
2.
Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.
Let his lack of years be no impediment.
Lack (lakt) , transitive verb
1.
To blame; to find fault with. [Obsolete]
Love them and lakke them not.
2.
To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.
Lack , intransitive verb
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.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.
2.
To be in want.
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
Lack , interjection
[Compare Alack.]
Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Provincial English] — Cowper