2. Verb. (third-person singular of lack) ¹
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Definition of Lacks
1. lack [v] - See also: lack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacks
Literary usage of Lacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"Library of Congress (as above), copy 1); A (§); lacks al, 2 but preserves H7 or
H8 (uncorrected outer C was noticed in diis copy). ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"His exhibit is fine, but lacks a conspicuous position. THE AMERICAN LEAD PENCIL
COMPANY, New- York, has one of the most interesting cases in the stationär}' ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"As an artist his conception is good and his view far-reaching, but he lacks in
brilliancy of coloring effects. He was a good engraver on copper. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It lacks their dramatic quality and the variety of their characters. It must be
compared with the Slavic and Oriental heroic songs, among which it properly ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... and operated by the draft of the team to keep them off, or by the weight of
the plows lo keep them on, the ground; and во lacks the distinctive features ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The great feature of it all is, that the Bible is never to be quoted except to
disprove it ; so that what a man lacks in scholarship, he may make up in ..."
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