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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.

Of a white or pale color; without color. To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. Milton.

To cover with a blanket. I'll . . . blanket my loins. Shak.

A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

Cloth for blankets.

In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly. G. Eliot.

The state of being blank.

and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

Without a clank. Byreon.

a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side. When to right and left the front Divided, and to either flank retired. Milton.

One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body. They threw out flankers, and endeavored to dislodge their assailants. W. Irwing.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.