wang-tooth 
Of this n&ses cheke, that was dreye, 
Out of a n'any-tooth sprang anon a welle. 
Chaucer, Monk's Tale, 1. 54. 
wangun (waug'guu), n. [Amer. Ind.] A place 
for keeping small supplies or a reserve stock ; 
especially, the chest in a lumber-camp con- 
taining clothing, shoes, tobacco, etc., which are 
sold to the men. 
wanhopet (won'hop), «. [< ME. wanhope (= 
MD. wanhoop); < wan- + hope^.'\ 1. Lack of 
hope ; hopelessness ; despair. 
Tlianne wex that shrewe in ivanhope and walde haue 
hanged him-self. Piers Plomnan (B), v. 286. 
Wei oughte I sterve in ivanhope and distresse. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 391. 
Alle hise disciplis weren in ivanhope; 
For to eoumforte them ihesu thouste. 
Hijmm to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 51. 
2. Vain hope ; delusion. 
The foolyshe ivanhope ... of some usurer, 
Chaioner, tr. of MorisD Encoiniuin, H 3 b. (Nareg.) 
waniandt, «• [ME. waniand. wamjaiid, tceny- 
ande; appar. a noun use of ME. waniand, ppr. 
(< AS. waniende) of wanien, wanen, wane: see 
wane'^. Ci. tcanion .1 Waning ; specifically, the 
waning of the moon, regarded as implying ill 
luck. 
Be they kyngia or knyghtis, in care ge thaini cast ; 
gaa, and welde thani in woo to wonne, in the wanyand. 
York Plays, p. 124. 
He would of lykelyhood byude them to cartes and beate 
them, and make theym wed in the waniand. 
Sir T. Mare, Works, p. 306. 
'Waniont (wan'ion), n. [Also xoannion, wenion; 
prob. a later form of waniand, used in impreca- 
tions with a vague implication of ill luck or mis- 
fortune.] A word found only in the phrases wiWi 
a icanion, in the wanion, and loanions on you, gen- 
erally interpreted to denote some kind of im- 
precation — 'WithawaJllon. (n) Bad luck to you ; the 
mischief take you, or the like. 
MaiTv, hang you ! 
Westward with a wanion t' ye ! 
Marston, Jonson, aiui Chapman, Eastward Ho, iii. 2. 
" Bide down, with a mischief to you — bide down with a 
wanion," cried the king. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel. 
(6) " With a vengeance " ; energetically ; vehemently ; em- 
phatically ; hence, in short order ; summarily. 
He should have been at home preaching in his diocese 
icith a tcaunion. Latitner, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
"Marry gep with a icenion!" quod Arthur-a-Bland, 
Robin Hood and the Tanner (Child's Ballads, V. 225). 
Yet considering with himself that wares would be wel- 
come where money wanteth, he went with a wanion to 
his mother's chamber, and there, seeking about for odd 
ends, at length found a little whistle of silver that his 
mother did use customarily to wear on. 
Hfirman, Caveat for Cursetors, p. 76. 
Come away, or I'll fetch thee tvith a wanion, 
Shafc., Pericles, ii. 1. 17. 
I'll tell Ralph a tale in 's ear shall fetch him again with 
a wanion. lieait. and Ft. , Kniglit of Burning Pestle, ii. 2. 
1 sent him out of my company with a wanion — I would 
rather have a rifler on my perch thau a false knave at my 
elbow. Scott, Abbot. 
wankapin (wong'ka-pin), n. [N. Amer. Ind.] 
The watev-ehinkapiu. Also yoncopin. 
'Vrankle (waii'kl), a. [< ME. wankel, < AS. tvau- 
col, woncol (= OS. wancal = OHGr. waiwhal, 
MHG. wankel), unsteady, unstable ; ef. OHG. 
MHG. wane, unsteady movement, doubt, G. 
wank, remove, change; OHG. wanchon, MHG. 
wanken, be unsteady, vacillate, = Icel. vakka 
= Sw. vanka, wander about ; connected with 
AS. wincian, etc., wink : see wink, tcince, and cf. 
weneh.] Weak; unstable; not to be depended 
on. [5forth. Eug.] 
■wanly (won'li),rtrfc. [< w«h 4- -/i/l.] In a wan 
or pale manner; palely. 
■wanness (won 'new), n. [< ME. wannesse ; < 
H-an'^ -(- -Hf.s.s.] Tlie state or appearance of be- 
ing wan; paleness: a sallow, dead, pale color: 
as, the wannens of the cheeks after a fever. 
wannish (won'ish), a. [Early mod. E. also 
wniii.ili : < (rf(»l -I- -!«ftl.] Somewhat wan; of 
a pale hue. 
The wanish moon, which sheens by night. 
4 Surrey, Ps. viii. 
Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire, 
Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar. 
Keats, Lamia, i. 
-Morning arises stormy and pale. 
No sun, but a wannish glare 
In fold upon fold of hueless cloud. 
Tennyson, Maud, vi. 1. 
wanrestful (won-rest'ful), a. [< wan- -I- rest- 
ful.] Restless. [Scotch.] 
An' may they never learn the gaets 
Of ither vile wanrest/u' pets. 
Burns, Death of Poor Mailie. 
Wanrufet, ". [< w/m- -t- Sc. >■«/'«, ruff, roif, 
rest; cf. /•ool.] Disquietude. 
6816 
Bot I half mervell in certalne 
Quhat makis th^ this ivanrvje. 
Robeiie and Makyne (Child's Ballads, IV. 246). 
wanset (wons), v. i. [Early mod. E. also wanze ; 
< ME. wansen, diminish, decrease, < AS. wan- 
sian, diminish; with verb-formative -»■, as in 
minsian, decrease (see mince), and cleensian, 
cleanse (see cleanse), < wan, deficient: see 
wane'^.'] To wane ; waste ; pine ; wither. 
His lively hue of white and red, his cheerfulness and 
strength. 
And all the things that liked him did wanze away at length. 
Qolding, tr, of Ovid's Metamorph., iii. {Trench.) 
'Wanspeedt, "• [ME. wanspede; < AS. wansped ; 
as wan- + speed.'] Ill fortune. 
What whylenes, or wanspede, wryxles our mynd? 
Destmetion of Troy (E. E. T. S.X I. 9827. 
'Wantif (wont), a. [ME., also wont, < Icel. vant, 
neut. (with reg. Scand. neut. suffix -t, as seen 
also in thwart, another word of Scand. origin) 
of vanr, lacking: see wan-, juawel.] Lacking; 
deficient. 
And fyue wont of fyfty, quoth God, I sclial forsete alle. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 740. 
■want^ (wont), n. [< ME. want, wonte, lack, de- 
ficiency, indigence, < Icel. vant, want, < vant, 
lacking: see want^, o.] 1. Lack; deficiency; 
scarcity; dearth, or absence of what is needed 
or desired: as, irant of thought ; want of money. 
'Prentices in Paul's Church-yard, that scented 
Your want of Breton's books. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. 4. 
He came the first Night to Mangera, but, for want of a 
Pilot, did not know where to look for the Town. 
DaTnpier, Voyages, I. 125. 
2. A vacant part, place, or space ; a vacancy. 
The wants in the wheels of your watch are as useful to 
the motion as the nucks or solid parts. 
Baxter, Divine Life, 1. in. 
3. That which is lacking, but needed ; the 
vacancy caused by the absence of some need- 
ful, important, or desirable thing. 
Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend, 
I'll break a custom. Shak., M. of V., i. 3, 64. 
4. The state of being without means; poverty; 
penury; indigence. 
An endless Spring of Age the Good enjoy, 
Where neither Want does pinch, nor Plenty cloy. 
Cowley, Pindaric Odes, i. 7. 
King out the want, the care, the sin, 
The faithless coldness of the times. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi. 
5t. A time of need. 
He wept and shed many tears, blessing God that had 
brought him to see their faces, and adntiring the things 
they had done in their wants. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 112. 
6. That which cannot be dispensed with ; a ne- 
cessity. 
Habitual superfluities become actual wants. 
Paley, Mor. Phil,, vi, 11. 
7. In coal-mining, same as iiip^, 8 Want of con- 
sideration. See consideration. = Syn. 1. Insufficiency, 
scantiness, dearth, default, failure. — 3. Requirement, de- 
sideratum.— 4. Need, Inditjerice, etc. (see poverty), dis- 
tress, straits. 
■want! (wont), V. [< ME. wanten, wonten, < Icel. 
vanta, want, lack, < vanr, neut. vant, lacking: 
see want^, «.] I. trans. 1. To be without; be 
destitute of; lack: as, to want knowledge or 
judgment ; to leant food, clothing, or money. 
Many a mayde, of which the name I want. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 287. 
The Lord our God wants neither Diligence, 
Nor Love, nor Care, nor Powr, nor Providence. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 7. 
As a barren Coxcomb, that wants 
Discourse, is ever entertaining Company out of the last 
Book 
He read in. Etherege, She Would if she Could, iv. 2. 
They want many bad qualities which abound in the 
others. Suift, Gulliver's Travels, iii. 10. 
2. To be deficient in; fall short in; be lack- 
ing in respect of, or to the amount of. 
Another will say it [the English language] ivaivteth 
Grammer. Nay, truly, it hath that praise, that it wanteth 
not Grammer : for Grammer it might have, but it needs it 
not. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie (ed. Arber), p. 70. 
We want nothing now but one Dispatch more from 
Rome, and then the Marriage will be solemnized. 
Howell, Letters, T. iii. 26. 
Trust me, Sir, I thought we had wanted three miles of 
this house, till you showed it to me. 
I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 56. 
3. To do without; dispense with ; spare. 
For law, physick, and divinitie need so the help of 
tonges and sciences as thei can not want them. 
Ascham (Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 16). 
Which they by this attempt were like to loose, and there- 
fore were willing to ivant his presence. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. ."iS. 
The dragoons will be crying for ale, and they wunna 
ivant it, and mannna want it Scott, Old Mortality, iv. 
wanting 
4. To have occasion for, as something requi- 
site, useful, or proper; require; need. 
Man wants but little here below, 
Nor wants that little long. 
Qoldimith, The Hermit. 
Not what we wish, but what we want. 
Oh ! let thy grace supply. Merrick, Hymn. 
5. To feel a desire for; feel the need of ; wish 
or long for; desire; crave. 
I want more uncles here to welcome me. 
Shak., Rich. III., iiL 1. 6. 
The good pope . . . s.iid, with scorn and indignation 
which well became him, that he wanted i\o such prose- 
lytes. Macavlay, Hist. Eng., vl. 
If he want me, let him come to me. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
6. To desire to see, speak to, or do business 
with; desire the presence or assistance of ; de- 
sire or require to do something: as, you are 
the very man we want; call me if I am wanted; 
the general wanted him to capture the battery. 
= Syn. Need, etc See lacki, v. t. 
II, intrans. 1. To be lacking, deficient, or 
absent. 
If ye wanten in thees tweyne. 
The world is lore. 
Chaucer, Complaint to Pity, 1. 76. 
There shall want 
Nothing to express our shares in your delight, sir. 
Beau, and FL, Thierry and Theodoret, iii. 1. 
As in bodies, thus in souls, we find 
What wantjs in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, L 208. 
2. To fail; give out; fall short. 
They of the citie fought valiantly with Engines, Darts, 
Arrowes : and when Stones wanted, they threw Silner, 
especially molten Siluer. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 402. 
The front looking to the river, tho' of i-are worke for y« 
carving, yet warUs of that magnificence which a plainer 
and truer designe would have contributed to it. 
Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 8, 1644. 
3. To be in need ; suffer from lack of some- 
thing. 
He cannot wai\t for money. Shak., T. of A., iiL 2. 10. 
want^t (wont), n. [Also leont; for wand, < ME. 
wand, < AS. wand, a mole, also in comp. wand- 
wyrp, a mole (cf. moldwarp), = G. dial, wond, 
wonne = Sw. dial, rand = Norw. rand, vaand, 
viind, vond, a mole.] The mole or moldwarp. 
They found beards of deere feeding by thousands, and 
the Countrie full of strange Conies, headed like ours, with 
the feet of a Want, and taile of a Cat, hauing vnder their 
chins a bagge, into which they gather their meat when 
they haue filled their bodie abroad. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 779. 
■want^t, n. [Prob. < Icel. rottr {rati-, orig. vant-) 
= OSw. wante, a glove, = Sw. Dan. rante = D. 
want, a mitten; cf. OSw. winda, wind, involve, 
wrap, r= E. wind, turn. Cf. OF. want (f ), guant. 
gant, F. gant = Pr. gan, giian = Sp. guante = 
Pg. guanies (pi.) = It. guanto, prob. < ML. wan- 
tus, a glove ; < Tent. Hence (from the F. gant) 
E. gantlet^, gauntlet^.'] A glove. Imp. Diet. 
wa'n't (want). A colloquial and vulgar contrac- 
tion of was not. 
wantage (won'taj), )). [< want^ -1- -oge.] De- 
ficiency ; that wliich is wanting. 
Inspectors and Gangers shall make a detailed return (in 
duplicate) of each lot inspected, showing the serial Duni- 
l>er of each stamp affixed thereto, the gauge, ivantage, 
proof, and number of proof gallons. 
Xeiv York Produce Exchange Report, 1888-9, p. 2,'i6. 
■wan^ter (won't^r), n. [< want^ -\- -rcl.] 1. One 
who wants; one who is in need. 
Tlie wanters are despised of God and men. 
Davies, Scourge of Folly, p. 21, {Davies.) 
2. An unmarried person who wants a mate. 
Halliu-eU. [Colloq.] 
want-gracet (wont'gras), «. [< want^, v., + obj. 
grace.] A reprobate. 
Want a want-grace to performe thedeede. 
Davies, Microcosmos, p. 57. (Daries.) 
want-hill (wont'hil), «. [< wanl^ + hiin.] A 
mole-hill. 
Walter EjTes, digging waut-hills, 8*. 
Darrelt Papers (in H. Halls Society in Elizabethan Age). 
wan-thriven (won-thriv'n), a. [< wan- + 
thriven.] Stunted ; decayed; in a state of de- 
cline. [Scotch.] 
wanting (won'ting), }). a. [< want^ + -ing^.] 
1. Deficient or lacking. 
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found loanl- 
ing. Dan, v, 27. 
Each, with streaming Eyes, supplies his wanting Urn. 
Congreve, Death of Queen Mary. 
The young people of our time are said to be tcaniing in 
reverence, J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p, 256. 
2t. Needy; poor. 
You forget yourself : 
I have not seen a gentleman so backward, 
A wanting gentleman. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, ii, 4. 
