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Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.

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  • WANTLESS
    Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
  • WANTON
    wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
  • SPEECHLESS
    1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
  • WANTWIT
    One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
  • LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
    A want of luster. -- a.
  • WANTONNESS
    The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
  • WANTAGE
    That which is wanting; deficiency.
  • SILENTIARY
    One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
  • LACKBRAIN
    One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
  • LACKEY
    An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar , the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored
  • SILENT
    Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable." 5. Having no effect; not operating; inefficient. Cause . . . silent, virtueless, and dead. Sir W. Raleigh. Silent partner. See Dormant partner, under Dormant. Syn. -- Mute;
  • WANTONIZE
    To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
  • LANGUAGE
    tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
  • SILENTIOUS
    Habitually silent; taciturn; reticent.
  • SILENTNESS
    State of being silent; silence.
  • WANTY
    A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon
  • LACKER
    One who lacks or is in want.
  • LACK
    1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. Shak.
  • WANTRUST
    Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust. Chaucer.
  • LANGUAGELESS
    Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
  • OVERLANGUAGED
    Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
  • FRANKFORT BLACK
    . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
  • CLACK
    MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • FORSLACK
    To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
  • BLACKEN
    Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ANGWANTIBO
    A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
  • MAGNASE BLACK
    A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
  • BLACK FLAGS
    An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
  • AIR-SLACKED
    Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
  • POLACK
    A Polander. Shak.
  • SHOEBLACK
    One who polishes shoes.
  • JET-BLACK
    Black as jet; deep black.
  • BLACK-JACK
    A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
  • BLACK LEAD
    Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.

 

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