▪ I. inlaik, n. Sc.
(ˈɪnleɪk, -læk)
Also 6 inlak, 7–8 inlack, 6– inlake.
[f. in-1 + laik, Sc. form of lack n.: cf. next.]
Lack, want; deficiency; failure.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiv. 54 The maltman sais, ‘I God forsaik..Gif ony bettir malt may be, And of this kill I haif inlaik.’ 1562 Winȝet Cert. Tractates i. Wks. 1888 I. 5 Hes not mony throw inlak of techement..mysknawin thair deuty? 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. a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 14 The king was nocht sufficient to governe the realme for inlaik of aige. 1635 D. Dickson Expl. Heb. viii. 10 The inlacks, or defects, of repentance and fayth. 1720 Wodrow Life R. Bruce (1843) 27 Through impunity and inlack of justice. |
▪ II. inˈlaik, v. Sc.
Also 6 inlak, (7 enlaike), 6– inlake.
[f. in-1 + laik, Sc. form of lack v.]
1. intr. To lack, to be wanting or deficient; to fail.
| 1533 Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 34 Thairfore inlakit xi dayis and vi houris to complete the hail yere. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 191 All the victuall [that] wes the hous within, Inlaikit fast. 1563–7 Buchanan Reform. St. Andros Wks. (1892) 10 Geif the principal inlak, the universitie..sal..cheiss..four..personis to that office. 1637–50 Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 196 That none of his sheep should be inlaiking. 1820 Blackw. Mag. VI. 669 At every word of the grace it [a cup] inlaked an inch. |
b. To fail through death; to decease.
| c 1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 333 It micht happin the witnessis to deceis or inlaik. a 1651 Calderwood Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) III. 244, I sall enlaike of my present disease. 1785 Jrnl. fr. Lond. in R. Forbes Poems Buchan Dial. 7 (Jam.), I was fley'd that she had taen the wytenon-fa, an' inlakit afore supper. |
2. trans. To lack (something requisite for completeness or sufficiency); to be wanting or deficient in; also absol.
| a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 19 We inlaik na thing bot hardiment and curraig. 1568 G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 15 The patient beand without rest, and ressone inlakand sleip. 1640–1 Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 138 Our horss, that are inlacking onlie nyne of our number. a 1774 Fergusson Election Poems (1845) 42 The gowd that inlakes half-a-crown. |
Hence inˈlaiking vbl. n. = inlaik n.
| a 1575 Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Club) 191 Thaj..concludit, that for inlaiking of justice within this realme, necessar it wes to cheis ane regent. 1595 Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.), Defectus, inlaking. |