inlaikn.

Brit.

/ˈɪnleɪk/, U.S.

/ˈɪnleɪk/, Scottish English

/ˈɪnlek/

Forms: Also 1500s inlak, 1600s–1700s inlack, 1500s– inlake.

Etymology: < in- prefix¹ + laik, Scots form of lack n.¹: compare inlaik v.

Scottish.

Lack, want; deficiency; failure.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > deficiency, lack, or shortage

wanec888

trokingc1175

want?c1225

defaultc1300

trokea1325

fault1340

lacking1377

scarcityc1380

wantingc1390

absencea1398

bresta1400

defect?a1425

lack?c1425

defailing1502

mank?a1513

inlaik1562

defection1576

inlaiking1595

vacuity1601

deficience1605

lossa1616

failancea1627

deficiency1634

shortness1669

falling shorta1680

miss1689

wantage1756

shortage1868

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 5 Hes not mony throw inlak of techement..mysknawin thair deuty?

1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 252 The maltman sais, ‘I God forsaik..Gif ony bettir malt may be And of this kill I haif inlaik’.

1571 Sc. Acts Jas. VI c. 38 That all persones..after the decease, decay or inlaik of their said superiours, hald, and sall hald their fewes..of our Soveraine Lord.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 14 The king was nocht sufficient to governe the realme for inlaik of aige.

1635 D. Dickson Short Explan. Hebrewes viii. 10. 159 The inlacks, or defects, of repentance & fayth.

1720 R. Wodrow Life R. Bruce (1843) 27 Through impunity and inlack of justice.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

inlaikv.

Forms: Also 1500s inlak, (1600s enlaike), 1500s– inlake.

Etymology: < in- prefix¹ + laik, Scots form of lack v.¹ 1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: inˈlaik.

Scottish.

a. intransitive. To lack, to be wanting or deficient; to fail.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > be insufficient [verb (intransitive)] > be wanting

trokec1000

lacka1175

wantc1225

missa1250

fail13..

fault1377

defaulta1382

defaila1400

inlaik1533

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 34 Thairfore inlakit xi dayis and vi houris to complete the hail yere.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 191 All the victuall [that] wes the hous within, Inlaikit fast.

?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 10 Geif the principal inlak, the universitie..sal..cheiss..four..personis to that office.

1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 196 That none of his sheep should be inlaiking.

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 669 At every word of the grace it [a cup] inlaked an inch.

b. To fail through death; to decease.

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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]

forsweltc888

sweltc888

adeadeOE

deadc950

wendeOE

i-wite971

starveOE

witea1000

forfereOE

forthfareOE

forworthc1000

to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE

queleOE

fallOE

to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE

to shed (one's own) blood?a1100

diec1135

endc1175

farec1175

to give up the ghostc1175

letc1200

aswelta1250

leavea1250

to-sweltc1275

to-worthc1275

to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290

finea1300

spilla1300

part?1316

to leese one's life-daysa1325

to nim the way of deathc1325

to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330

flit1340

trance1340

determinec1374

disperisha1382

to go the way of all the eartha1382

to be gathered to one's fathers1382

miscarryc1387

shut1390

goa1393

to die upa1400

expirea1400

fleea1400

to pass awaya1400

to seek out of lifea1400–50

to sye hethena1400

tinea1400

trespass14..

espirec1430

to end one's days?a1439

decease1439

to go away?a1450

ungoc1450

unlivec1450

to change one's lifea1470

vade1495

depart1501

to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513

to decease this world1515

to go over?1520

jet1530

vade1530

to go westa1532

to pick over the perch1532

galpa1535

to die the death1535

to depart to God1548

to go home1561

mort1568

inlaikc1575

shuffle1576

finish1578

to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587

relent1587

unbreathe1589

transpass1592

to lose one's breath1596

to make a die (of it)1611

to go offa1616

fail1623

to go out1635

to peak over the percha1641

exita1652

drop1654

to knock offa1657

to kick upa1658

to pay nature her due1657

ghost1666

to march off1693

to die off1697

pike1697

to drop off1699

tip (over) the perch1699

to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703

sink1718

vent1718

to launch into eternity1719

to join the majority1721

demise1727

to pack off1735

to slip one's cable1751

turf1763

to move off1764

to pop off the hooks1764

to hop off1797

to pass on1805

to go to glory1814

sough1816

to hand in one's accounts1817

to slip one's breatha1819

croak1819

to slip one's wind1819

stiffen1820

weed1824

buy1825

to drop short1826

to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839

to get one's (also the) call1839

to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840

to unreeve one's lifeline1840

to step out1844

to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845

to hand in one's checks1845

to go off the handle1848

to go under1848

succumb1849

to turn one's toes up1851

to peg out1852

walk1858

snuff1864

to go or be up the flume1865

to pass outc1867

to cash in one's chips1870

to go (also pass over) to the majority1883

to cash in1884

to cop it1884

snuff1885

to belly up1886

perch1886

to kick the bucket1889

off1890

to knock over1892

to pass over1897

to stop one1901

to pass in1904

to hand in one's marble1911

the silver cord is loosed1911

pip1913

to cross over1915

conk1917

to check out1921

to kick off1921

to pack up1925

to step off1926

to take the ferry1928

peg1931

to meet one's Maker1933

to kiss off1935

to crease it1959

zonk1968

cark1977

to cark it1979

to take a dirt nap1981

c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 333 It micht happin the witnessis to deceis or inlaik.

a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) III. 244 I sall enlaike of my present disease.

1785 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth 7 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. I was fley'd that she had taen the wytenon-fa, an' inlakit afore sipper.

2. transitive. To lack (something requisite for completeness or sufficiency); to be wanting or deficient in; also absol.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > not have [verb (transitive)] > lack

wantc1175

missa1300

tharnc1300

to fail of1307

lackc1320

fault1377

failc1380

wanea1400

defaultc1425

to want ofc1425

walter1463

fault?1504

to defail of1556

to want for1560

scant1565

inlaik1568

impaira1626

to bate of1633

1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest vi. sig. A8 The patient beand without rest & ressone inlakand sleip.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 19 We inlaik na thing bot hardiment and curraig.

1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 18 Dec. (1855) 138 Our horss, that are inlacking onlie nyne of our number.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 170 The gowd that inlakes half a crown.

Derivatives

inˈlaiking n. = inlaik n.

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