Lack

n.	1.	Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
	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.
v. t.	1.	To blame; to find fault with. [imp. & p. p. Lacked (lăkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacking.] 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.
v. i.	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.
interj.	1.	Exclamation of regret or surprise.

Noun	1.	lack - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" Synonyms: deficiency, want
Verb	1.	lack - be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewellery box!" Synonyms: miss

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