lank

lank englannista suomeksi

1. hontelo, pitkä ja laiha

2. suora ja eloton

1. laiha, hintelä

1. Verbi

1. Substantiivi

lank englanniksi

1. Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

2. (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)

3. 1700, (w), 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 III, p. 226,https://archive.org/details/worksoflearnedis23barr

(..) who would not chuse (..) to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain (..)?

4. 1724-5, Swift|Jonathan Swift, “A Receipt. To Restore Stella’s Youth” in ''The Works of Jonathan Swift'', London: Henry Washbourne, 1841, Volume 1, p. 687,https://books.google.ca/books?id=YksQCsw-KhwC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

Meagre and lank with fasting grown,

And nothing left but skin and bone;

5. (RQ:Irving Sketch Book)

6. (RQ:Wells Time Machine) while I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour.

7. (RQ:McCarthy Blood Meridian)

8. Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.

9. 1659, Samuel Cradock, ''Knowledge & Practice, Or, A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d & Practised in order to Salvation'', London: John Rothwell, Chapter 17, Of the Duties of the Rich, pp. 494-495,https://archive.org/details/knowledgepracti00cradgoog

We should think ''him'' a very ''imprudent Husbandman'', that to save a ''little seed'' at present, would ''sow so thin'', as to spoil his crop. And the ''same folly'' ’twill be in us, if by the ''sparingness'' and ''niggardize'' of our ''Almes'', we make our selves ''a lank Harvest'' hereafter, and lose the ''reward'' God hath provided for the ''liberal'' Almes-giver.

10. (RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)

11. Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)

12. 1695, Stevens (translator)|John Stevens (translator), ''The Portugues Asia; or, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues'', by (w), London: C. Brome, Chapter 10, p. 291,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010824984

The Inhabitants most simple, and treated them with great affection. Of Colour more inclined to white, of Body strong and comly, lank Hair, and long Beards, their Cloaths of very fine Mats (..)

13. (RQ:Swift Gulliver's Travels)

14. (RQ:Austen Northanger Abbey)

15. (RQ:Macaulay History of England) There were Puritan coffee houses where no oath was heard, and where lank-haired men discussed election and reprobation through their noses.

16. {{quote-text|en|year=1940|author=Hugh Walpole|title=The Bright Pavilions|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|section=Part I|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400531h.html

17. Languid; drooping, slack.

18. {{quote-text|en|year=1634|author=John Milton|title=(John Milton)|Comus|lines=833–837|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19819/19819-h/19819-h.htm

19. {{quote-book|en|year=1655|author=William Spurstowe|title=The Wels of Salvation Opened|location=London|publisher=Ralph Smith|chapter=18|pages=249–250|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012454091

20. To become lank.

21. (RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra) on the AlpsIt is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,Which some did die to look on: and all this—It wounds thine honour that I speak it now—Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheekSo much as lank’d not.

22. long

23. tall

24. long

(ux)

25. (diminutive of)

26. long (in physical measure), tall

27. coffee