'Lank' definitions:
Definition of 'lank'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Long and thin and often limp; "grown lank with fasting"; "lank mousy hair"
adjective
Long and lean [syn: lank, spindly]
Definition of 'Lank'
From: GCIDE
- Lank \Lank\, v. i. & t. To become lank; to make lank. [Obs.] --Shak. --G. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lank'
From: GCIDE
- Lank \Lank\ (l[a^][ng]k), a. [Compar. Lanker; superl. Lankest.] [AS. hlanc; cf. G. lenken to turn, gelenk joint, OHG. hlanca hip, side, flank, and E. link of a chain.]
- 1. Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. [1913 Webster]
- Meager and lank with fasting grown. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Languid; drooping. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Lank hair, long, thin hair. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]