The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger.
Ps. xxxiv. 10.
Lack, interj. [Cf. Alack.] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [Prov.
Eng.] Cowper.
Lack`a*dai"si*cal (lk`*d"z*kal), a. [From Lackadaisy, interj.]
Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly,
adv.
Lack"a*dai`sy (?), interj. [From Lackaday, interj.] An expression of
languor.
Lack"a*dai`sy, a. Lackadaisical.
Lack"a*day` (?), interj. [Abbreviated from alackaday.] Alack the day;
alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.
Lack"brain` (?), n. One who is deficient in understanding; a witless
person. Shak.
Lack"er (?), n. One who lacks or is in want.
Lack"er, n. & v. See Lacquer.
Lack"ey (?), n.; pl. Lackeys (#). [F. laquais; cf. Sp. & Pg. lacayo; of
uncertain origin; perh. of German origin, and akin to E. lick, v.] An
attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey.
Shak.
Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid
moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party-colored
markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with
blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American
species (C. Americana and C. sylvatica) are commonly called tent
caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar, under Tent. -- Lackey moth (Zoöl.),
the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.
Lack"ey, v. t. To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
Milton.
Lack"ey, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lackeyed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Lackeying.]
To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
{ Lack"lus`ter, Lack"lus`tre } (?), n. A want of luster. -- a. Wanting
luster or brightness. "Lackluster eye." Shak.
Lac"mus (?), n. See Litmus.
La*co"ni*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Laconia, a division of ancient
Greece; Spartan. - - n. An inhabitant of Laconia; esp., a Spartan.
{ La*con"ic (?), La*con"ic*al (?), } a. [L. Laconicus Laconian, Gr.
&?;&?;, fr. &?;&?; a Laconian, Lacedæmonian, or Spartan: cf. F.
laconique.] 1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the
Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this
sense laconic is the usual form.
I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only
yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard
long.
Pope.
His sense was strong and his style laconic.
Welwood.
2. Laconian; characteristic of, or like, the Spartans; hence, stern or
severe; cruel; unflinching.
His head had now felt the razor, his back the rod; all that
laconical discipline pleased him well.
Bp. Hall.
Syn. -- Short; brief; concise; succinct; sententious; pointed; pithy.
-- Laconic, Concise. Concise means without irrelevant or superfluous
matter; it is the opposite of diffuse. Laconic means concise with the
additional quality of pithiness, sometimes of brusqueness.
La*con"ic, n. Laconism. [Obs.] Addison.
La*con"ic*al (?), a. See Laconic, a.
La*con"ic*al*ly, adv. In a laconic manner.
La*con"i*cism (?), n. Same as Laconism. Pope.
Lac"o*nism (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to imitate Lacedæmonian manners,
to speak laconically: cf. F. laconisme.] 1. A vigorous, brief manner of
expression; laconic style.