Lank

From Fresh Dictionary

English

Adjective

lank (Comparative Lanker ; superl. Lankest.] [AS. hlanc; cf. G. lenken to turn, gelenk joint, OHG. hlanca hip, side, flank, and E. link of a chain.]

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.
   • Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter 1.
2. Languid; drooping.[Obs.]
   • Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. - Milton
   • Lank hair, long, thin hair. - Macaulay

Verb

lank [intransitive & transitive]

1. To become lank; to make lank.

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