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A diminutive lacinia.

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.

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.

Lackadaisical.

Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.

One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.

One who lacks or is in want.

ng male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with blue, yel…

Wanting luster or brightness. "Lackluster eye." Shak.

See Litmus.

Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient Greece; Spartan. -- n.

Laconism. [Obs.] Addison.

Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long. Pope. His sense was str…

See Laconic, a.

In a laconic manner.

Same as Laconism. Pope.

A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style.

To imitate the manner of the Laconians, especially in brief, pithy speech, or in frugality and austerity.

A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-maché, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.…

One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering.