SYN: Deficiency, lack, failure, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, omission, neglect, nonproduction, absence.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

2 k.o. thin, fan-shaped bivalve, found in sandy seabeds, of no food value.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There seemed quite a propriety in the mutual affection of these two young people; it was, to say the least of it, quite patriarchal that Abraham should love Sarah; but whether Abe ever thought of Scripture precedent for indulging such sentiment or not, one thing is certain, he followed the example set by one of old, and took Sarah to be his wife.
— from Little Abe, or, the Bishop of Berry Brow Being the Life of Abraham Lockwood by F. Jewell

In looking around for material to light a fire, I saw scraps of newspapers, which I examined closely and found they were Dutch papers, one bearing the name of "Odoorn" and the other "Nieuwstadskanaal.
— from Three Times and Out Told by Private Simmons, Written by Nellie L. McClung by Mervin C. Simmons

“I heard a cry, and I fancy I see some one not far from.
— from Ned Garth; Or, Made Prisoner in Africa: A Tale of the Slave Trade by William Henry Giles Kingston

On top of the shelves on one side of the fireplace I shall set our noble Venus di Milo, and I shall buy at Cicci’s the lovely Clytie, and put it the other side.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

We fell into some sort of nautical argument, and in the heat of the discussion I said something that caused the third mate to look at me fixedly for a little while, whilst he muttered under his breath, in a kind of half-stifled way, as though his teeth were set.
— from The Honour of the Flag by William Clark Russell

The work at the farm is so splendidly organized now and the girls are so deeply interested, I don’t see why you should have any especial difficulty if you will just allow things to go on as they are at present.”
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Field of Honor by Margaret Vandercook

And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords: I hear the king my father is sore sick: Our news shall go before us to his majesty, 75 Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him; And we with sober speed will follow you.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare

The distance to Klampenborg is eight and a half English miles, and the fare is sixteen skillings, or nine cents, third class; twenty-four skillings, or thirteen and a half cents, second class; and thirty-two skillings, or eighteen cents, first class.
— from Up The Baltic; Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic