Obs. [f. LANK a.]
1. trans. To make lank.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 39 b. As soone as thou arte vp lanke thy bely [L. levato alvum] and spett out rotten fleme.
1562. Leigh, Armorie (1597), 44 b. The Lion … (if he be in daunger to bee chased) … vomiteth at his will, and lanketh himselfe.
1604. Meeting of Gallants, 7. I rack the vaines and Sinewes, lancke the lungs.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., I. xiii. Greefes companie … lankes the cheekes.
2. intr. To become lank or shrunken.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., I. iv. 71. And all this … Was borne so like a Soldiour, that thy cheeke So much as lank’d not.
