Lank

Etymology
hlanc:; confer German lenken:, gelenk:, Old High German hlanca:, and English link: (of a chain).

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/l{Nk/}}

Adjective

 * 1) Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
 * 2) * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - Jonathan Swift.
 * 3) * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - Isaac Barrow.
 * 4) * Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter 1.
 * 5) (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp.  (often associated with being greasy)
 * 6) * Lank hair, long, thin hair. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
 * 7)  languid; drooping.
 * 8) * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. - John Milton

Translations

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Verb

 * 1)  To become lank; to make lank.

Anagrams

 * klan, Klan

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