Lank /(lăṉk)/
Lank
a.
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Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
Meager and lank with fasting grown.
Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain?
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Languid; drooping. [Obs.]
Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head.
Phrases & Compounds
- Lank hair
- long, thin hair.
Lank
v. i. & t.
- To become lank; to make lank. [Obs.]