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LANK
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long and lean
Synonyms:
lank; spindly
Classified under:
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Long and thin and often limp
Example:
lank mousy hair
Classified under:
Similar:
long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)
Context examples:
The females were not so large as the males; they had long lank hair on their heads, but none on their faces, nor any thing more than a sort of down on the rest of their bodies, except about the anus and pudenda.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The whole of his lank cheek was invitingly before me, and I struck it with my open hand with that force that my fingers tingled as if I had burnt them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the fore parts of their legs and feet; but the rest of their bodies was bare, so that I might see their skins, which were of a brown buff colour.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in decent black, with a white wisp of a neckcloth; buttoned up to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton hand, which particularly attracted my attention, as he stood at the pony's head, rubbing his chin with it, and looking up at us in the chaise.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He had a large pair of bellows, with a long slender muzzle of ivory: this he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
With his face turned towards me, as he finished, but without looking at me, he took his crooked thumb off the spot where he had planted it, and slowly and thoughtfully scraped his lank jaw with it, as if he were shaving himself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The mattress of the sofa (which was a great deal too short for his lank figure), the sofa pillows, a blanket, the table-cover, a clean breakfast-cloth, and a great-coat, made him a bed and covering, for which he was more than thankful.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
