LANK

a. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. Meager and lank with fasting grown. Swift. Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain Barrow.

2.
a.

Languid; drooping.[Obs.] Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. Milton. Lank hair, long, thin hair. Macaulay.

3.
v.

To become lank; to make lank. [Obs.] Shak. G. Fletcher.


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