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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lank a. [Compar. Lanker superl. Lankest.]
 1. Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
    Meager and lank with fasting grown.   --Swift.
    Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain?   --Barrow.
 2. Languid; drooping. [Obs.]
    Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head.   --Milton.
 Lank hair, long, thin hair.