OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 11509

lank

/læŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
delgado • flaco
Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
1700, Isaac Barrow, Sermon XXII “Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars,” in The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, D.D., London: John Tillotson, 2nd edition, Volume II…
Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe, About her lank and all o’erteemed loins, A b…
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