Lank

Definition of Lank

Pronunciation: lăņk
a.1.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.
2.Languid; drooping.
Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head.
- Milton.
Lank hair
long, thin hair.
- Macaulay.
v. i. & t.1.To become lank; to make lank.

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