Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WONT, a. [wont is strictly the participle passive of won, wone; Sax. wunian, to dwell, to remain, to endure, to exist, to consist; G. wohnen, D. woonen. But the D. has wennen, Sw. vånia, Dan. vænner, to accustom; Ir. fanaim, to remain. In English, the verb is obsolete; but we retain the participle in use, and form it into a verb. See the Verb.]

Accustomed; habituated; using or doing customarily. If the ox were wont to push with his horn. – Exod. xxi. They were wont to speak in old time, saying … – 2 Sam. xx. See Matth. xxvii, 15. Luke xxii, 39.