Lack

Lack - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

LACK, v.t. [L. deliquium, which seems to be connected with linquo, to leave, to faint, and with liquo, to melt, liquid, _c.]

1. To want; to be destitute of; not to have or possess.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask it of God - James 1.

2. To blame. [Not in use.]

LACK, v.i.

1. To be in want.

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. Psa 34.

2. To be wanting.

Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous.

Gen 18.

LACK, n. Want; destitution; need; failure.

He that gathered little, had no lack. Exo 14.

Lack of rupees is one hundred thousand rupees, which at 55 cents each, amount to fifty five thousand dollars, or at 2 Sam 6d. sterling, to 12,500 pounds.