Noun

(en noun)

An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.

* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 205:

...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt , which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.

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A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.

* Shakespeare

Let his lack of years be no impediment.

* 1994 , (Green Day),

I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

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