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

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

To be without, not to have, to need, to require.

To be short (of or for something).

(obsolete) To be in want.

(obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

(African-American Vernacular) To be off one's guard.