2. To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.

James i. 5.

Lack, v. i. 1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to

be less than, short, not quite, etc.

What hour now ? I think it lacks of twelve.

Shak.

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty.

Gen. xvii. 28.

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