Definition of lank

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Lank (superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

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Syllable :: Syllable (n.) An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked by one or more consonants, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only
Paddlewood :: Paddlewood (n.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks..
Blank :: Blank (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence..
Clank :: Clank (v. i.) To sound with a clank.
Dipteral :: Dipteral (a.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple..
Plank :: Plank (n.) A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board..
Flank :: Flank (n.) The side of any building.
Card :: Card (n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.
Order :: Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large..
Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager..
Rubican :: Rubican (a.) Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses..
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines..
Poncho :: Poncho (n.) A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service..
Billboard :: Billboard (n.) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on..
Pylon :: Pylon (n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway..
Planking :: Planking (n.) The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel..
Flank :: Flank (v. i.) To border; to touch.
Rotten :: Rotten (a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone..
Stationery :: Stationer (a.) One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing..
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