n.
Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
n.
An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.
n.
The act or process of waning, or decreasing.
n.
A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.
a.
Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.
adv.
In a wan, or pale, manner.
n.
The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.
a.
Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.
v. i.
The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
v. i.
Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
v. i.
That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.
v. i.
A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
v. t.
To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
v. t.
To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
v. t.
To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.