Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WAN'DER-ING, ppr.

Roving; rambling; deviating from duty.

WAN'DER-ING-LY, adv.

In a wandering or unsteady manner. Taylor.

WAN-DER-OO', n.

A baboon of Ceylon and Malabar.

WAND'Y, a.

Long and flexible, like a wand. Bracket.

WANE, n.

1. Decrease of the illuminated part of the moon, to the eye of a spectator.
2. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension. You are cast upon an age in which the church is in its wane. South.

WANE, v.i. [Sax. wanian, to fail, fall off or decrease.]

1. To be diminished; to decrease; particularly applied to the illuminated part of the moon. We say, the moon wanes, that is, the visible or illuminated part decreases. Waning moons their settled periods keep. Addison.
2. To decline; to fail; to sink; as, the waning age of life. You saw but sorrow in its waning form. Dryden. Land and trade ever will wax and wane together. Child.

WANE, v.t.

To cause to decrease. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

WAN-ED, pp.

Caused to decrease; diminished.

WANG, n. [Sax. wang, weng, wong.]

1. The jaw, jawbone or cheek-bone. [Little used or vulgar.]
2. The latchet of a shoe. [Sax. sceo-thwang, shoe-thong. Not in use.]

WANG-TOOTH, n.

A jaw-tooth. Cyc.

WAN'HOPE, n.

Want of hope. [Not used.]

WAN'HORN, n.

A plant of the genus Kaempferia. Lee.

WAN-ING, ppr.

Decreasing; failing; declining.

WAN'KLE, a.

Weak; unstable; not to be depended on. Grose.

WANLY, adv.

In a pale manner; palely.

WAN'NED, a.

Made wan or pale. Shak.

WANNESS, n.

Paleness; a sallow, dead, pale color; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

WAN'NISH, a.

Somewhat wan; of a pale hue. Fairfax.

WANT, n. waunt. [Sax. wan, supra; wanian, to fail; Goth wan, deficiency, want. This seems to be primarily a participle of wane.]

1. Deficiency; defect; the absence of that which is necessary or useful; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing. The want of money is a common want. 2 Cor. viii. ix. From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes. Rambler.
2. Need; necessity; the effect of deficiency. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy. Franklin.
3. Poverty; penury; indigence. Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Swift.
4. The state of not having. I can not write a letter at present for want of time.
5. That which is not possessed, but is desired or necessary, for use or pleasure. Habitual superfluities become actual wants. Paley.
6. A mole. Heylin.

WANT, v.i. waunt.

1. To be deficient; not to be sufficient. As in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind. Pope.
2. To fail; to be deficient; to be lacking. No time shall find me wanting to my truth. Dryden.
3. To be missed; not to be present. The jury was full, wanting one.
4. To fall short; to be lacking. Twelve, wanting one, he slew. Dryden.

WANT, v.t. waunt.

1. To be destitute; to be deficient in not to have; a word of general application; as, to was knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing; to want money.
2. To be defective or deficient in. Timber may want strength or solidity to answer its purpose.
3. To fall short; not to contain or have. The sum wants a dollar of the amount of debt. Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Milton.
4. To be without. The unhappy never want enemies. Richardson.
5. To need; to have occasion for, as useful, proper or requisite. Our manners want correction. In winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes. We all want more public spirit and more virtue.
6. To wish for; to desire. Every man wants a little preeminence over his neighbor. Many want that which they can not obtain, and which if they could obtain, would certainly ruin them. What wants my son. Addison.

WANT'ACE, n.

Deficiency; that which is wanting.

WANT'ED, pp.

Needed; desired.

WANT'ING, ppr.

1. Needing; lacking; desiring.
2. adj. Absent; deficient. One of the twelve is wanting. We have the means, but the application is wanting.
3. Slack; deficient. I shall not be wanting in exertion.

WANT'LESS, a.

Having no want; abundant; fruitful. Warner.