Lank
Lank (lank) , adjective
[AS. hlanc; compare German lenken to turn, gelenk joint, Old High German hlanca hip, side, flank, and English link of a chain.]
1.
Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
Meager and lank with fasting grown.
Who would not choose... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain?
2.
Languid; drooping. [Obsolete]
Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head.
Collocations (1)
Lank hair , long, thin hair. — Macaulay
Lank , verb, intransitive and transitive
To become lank; to make lank. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare