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A tearing in pieces. [R.]

A thong of leather; a whip lash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Bearing or producing wool.

Working in wool.

Anything made of wool. [Obs.] Bacon.

Bearing or producing wool.

Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidæ).

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.

The condition or quality or being lanky.

In a lank manner.

The state or quality of being lank.

Somewhat lank. Thackeray. The lanky Dinka, nearly seven feet in height. The Century.

A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.

A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues generally.

The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste. Balfour.

A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet. [They play] their little game of lansquenet. Longfellow.

rican species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.

See Lanthanum.

ng, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.

An old name of loo (a).