Definition of lank

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Lank (superl.) Languid; drooping.

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Blanket :: Blanket (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
Panel :: Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted..
Lanky :: Lanky (a.) Somewhat lank.
Bite :: Bite (v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper..
Lottery :: Lottery (n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance..
Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
But :: But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
Blank :: Blank (n.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts..
Teeter :: Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter..
Deal :: Deal (n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end..
Stealing :: Stealer (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
Blanketing :: Blanketing (n.) Cloth for blankets.
Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion..
Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..
Wharfing :: Wharfing (n.) A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
Blank :: Blank (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc..
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..
Blank :: Blank (v. t.) To make void; to annul.
Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing..
Plank :: Plank (v. t.) To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship..
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