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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.

Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.

An exclamation expressing sorrow.

darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! Shak.

The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.

The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.

One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hostilities with Anam, 1873-85.

A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.