6817 
H. trans. If. To make wanton. 
If he does win, it wantotig him with over-plus, and enters 
wapiti 
The werld wannes at a wappe, and the wediie gloumes. 
Alliteratiee Poems (ed. Moiris), Oloss., p. 20!). 
hin. h.to new ways of expence. !..»*«„,, Resolves, ii. .,8. Z"w'j?te1t?a'e his hS ""aT'' 
2. To spend or waste in wantonness. Leeaome Brand (Child's Ballads, II. 343). 
Hee wanlont away his life foolishly that, when he is fvap^f (wop), V. t. [< ME. wctppen (also eomp. 
,.,iii *..i,o „),.,.,„i, f„ ™„i.„ !,,„, =i..i- atwappen, hiwappen), lap or wrap, wrap up (per- 
wanting 
The loantiiig orphans saw with watery eyes 
Their founders' charity in dust laid low. 
Dt-ydeiij .\nnus Mirabills, st. 274. 
■wanting (w6n'ting),jp)'ejj. Except; less; minus. 
Twelve, wanting one, he slew. 
Drydeii, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., xii. 727. ^^^^ ^j„ t^ke physiik to make him siOk 
WantleSS (wont'Ies), a. [< iiY(H(l + -less.'] Bjp. Haii, Defeat of Cruelty. 
Having no want ; abundant; fruitful. [Bare.] wantonheadt, wan'tonhoodt (won' ton-hed, 
The M>on<-/e«» counties, Essex, Kent, -hud), H. [< ME. wantounhede ; < wanton + 
Surrie. n-atwr, Albion's England, ill. 7. -head, -liood.] Wantonness. Wap2 (wop) ». [AXao wai>p, ifnp ; < wap'^, v-] 
wanto (wan'to), H. A reed-buek of western wantoningi (won'ton-ing), n. [Verbal a. of ^ Abale or bundle.asof hayor straw. [Scotch 
Africa: same as n«(/o)', 1. wanton, r.\ The act of playing the wanton. -_._--.. 
wanton (won'ton), a. and n. [< ME. wantonn, wantoning'-' (won'ton-ing), n. [< wanton + 
wantoicn, waHtoicen,wantosei', also, with, loss ot -ing'^-] A wanton; a dallier. 
" .... g^^^ since, I saw it painted on fame's wings 
The Muses to be woxen wantoning^. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, I. ii. 34. 
haps confused with wraiipen, wJappen, wrap, 
lap): seeicrty), /a/)3.] To wrap; tie; bind. Hal- 
Uwell. 
pp. suffix -n, wantowe, orig. ' uneducated, unre- 
strained,' hence ' licentious, sportive, playful,' 
< wan-, not, + towen (also i-towen), < AS. togen 
(also getogen), pp. of teon (pret. teah, pi. tiigon) wantonizet (won'ton-Tz), 
V. I. 
= Goth, tiulian, etc., = L. ducere, draw: see wan- 
and teel (of which -ton is the pp. reduced). Cf. 
ME. untowen, perverse, G. ung'ezogcn, ill-bred, 
rude, uncivil. Cf. the opposite ME. wel i-towen, 
well-taught, modest.] 1. «. 1. Ill brought up; 
imdisciplined; unrestrained; hence, free from 
moral control. 
He . . . aasociate vnto hym certeyn icanton persones, 
& bete his niayster. Fabyan, Chron., cxxvii. 
2. Characterized by extreme recklessness, fool- 
hardiness, or heartlessness; malicious; reck- 
lessly disregardful of right or of consequences : 
applied both to persons and to their acts. 
The wanton troopers riding by 
Have shot ray fawn, and it will dye. 
Marvell, Xymph Complaining for Death of her Fawn. 
3. Wild; unruly; loose; unrestrained. 
And take good hede bi wisdom & resonn 
That bi no leantowite l.-tnjiuge thou do noon offence 
To-fore thi souereyne while he is in presence. 
Babrex Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 27. 
She, as a veil, down to the slender waist 
Her unadorned golden tresses wore 
DUhevel'd, but in icanton ringlets waved. 
MiWm, v. L, iv. 304. 
How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise ! 
Addimn, <'ato, i. :>. 
4. Playful; sportive; frolicsome. 
All leanton as a child, skipping and vain. 
Shale., L. L. L., v. 2. 771. 
Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers rise 
Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. 
naton, Lycidas, 1. 136. 
5. Bank; lu.Yuriant. 
The quaint mazes in the wanton green. 
Sludi., M. N. D., ii. 1. flii. 
Every ungovernable passion grows wanton and luxuri- 
ant in corrupt religions. Bacon, Fable of Dionysius. 
[< wanton 
wanton. 
-i.e.] To frolic; sport; dally 
That broad and glaring way wherein 
Wild sinners find full space to ivantonize. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 72. 
wan'tonly (won'tgn-li), adv. [< wanton + -ly^.} 
In a wanton man'ner. Specifically— (o) Recklessly; 
unadvisedly; thoughtlessly; without regard for right or 
consequences. 
A plague so little to be fear'd 
As to be wantonly incurr'd. 
Cowper, Mutual Forbearance. 
No nation will wantonly go to war with another if it lias 
nothing to gain thereby. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 289. 
(6) Frolicsomely ; sportfully ; gaily ; playfully ; carelessly. 
How sweet these solitary places are I how wantonly 
and North. Eng.]— 2. A shroud-stopper. — 3. 
A pendant with a thimble in one end tlirongh 
which running rigging is led. 
wapS+ (wop), V. i. [< ME. wappen, bark; cf. 
j(ia^2 and j/ryj.] To bark; yelp. 
Wappynge or baflyng as howndys. Prompt. Pare. 
"lis the little wapping of small dogs tliat stirs up the 
C. Mather, Discourse on Witchcraft (ed. 10b9), p. 24. 
wapacut (wop'a-kut), n. [NL. as specific name 
wapacnthu; < A'mer. Ind. (Cree) wapaeuthu, wa- 
pow-keetho (also ivapohoo), a white owl: a name 
applied by Pennant and Latham to a kind of owl 
describedinthemanuscriptnotesof Mr. Huteh- 
ins, who resided on Severn river, near Hudson's 
Bay.] A large white spotted owl, about 2 feet 
long and without ear-tiifts, believed to be the 
common snowy owl, Nyctea scandiaca. See cut 
under snow-owl. 
wapen, n. An obsolete or dialectal form oi' 
weapon. 
"'\wth'''em°'*'''''°"*''''''''"'F".yc^^^^^^ wapenshaw (wop'n-sha), n. [Sc, also «.«7,- 
y)eHs7iaw, JfrtiJ/HSo/fflw, etc., lit. 'weapon-show,' 
< wapen (a form of weapon) + shaw.] A show 
(e) Lewdly ; lasciviously. 
wantonness (won'ton-nes), ». [< ME. wan- 
townesse ; < wanton + -ness.~\ 1. The state or 
character of being wanton, in any sense. 
.Somwhat lie lipsed for his wantowneue, 
To make his English swete upon his tonge. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 264. 
I rather will suspect the sun with cold 
Than thee with wantonness. 
Shak., -M. W. of W., iv. 4. 8. 
Wantonness and luxury, the wonted companions of 
plenty, grow up as fast. Milton, Hist. Eng. , ill. 
2. A wanton or outrageous act. 
It were a wantonness, and would demand 
Severe reproof. Wordsworth, Excursion, i. 
wantrustt, »• [< MK. wantmst (= MD. «•««- 
troost); < wan- + trnst^, q. v.] Distrust. 
<) wantrt'st! ful of fals suspeecioun. 
Chaueer, .Manciple's Talc, 1. 177. 
wantsomet (wdut'sum), a. [< ME 
< want^ + -some.] Poor; needy. 
6. Characterized by unrestrained indulgence of ^antwitt (wont'wit), n. [< wanfi, r.. + obj 
dissolute; 
the natural impulses or appetites 
licentious. 
The proud day, 
Att«nde<t with the pleasures of the world, 
Is all too wanton and too full of gawds. 
S/ia*.,K. John, iii. 3. 36. 
Men, grown leanton by prosperity. 
Study d new arts of luxury and ease. 
Roscommon, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. 
WatUoH professor and damnalile apostate. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, i. 
7. Particularly, unchaste; lascivious; libidi- 
nous; lustful; lewd. 
Thou art . . . froward Ijy nature, enemy to peace, 
Lascivious, wanton. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 19. 
A icanton mistress Is a common sewer. 
Ford, Lady's Trial, i. '-'. 
n. «. 1. A pampered, petted creature; one 
spoiled by fondness or indulgence; also, a frol- 
icsome, roving, sportive creature; atrifler: used 
sometimes as a term of endearment. 
Thy parents made thee a tranton with too much cocker- Wanyt, i' 
One destitute of wit or sense ; a fool 
Sucll a itant-wit sadness makes of me 
That I have much ado to know myself. 
Shak., M. of V., i. 1. 6. 
wantyl (won'ti), «.; pi. wanties (-tiz). [Ori- 
gin uncertain.] A leather tie or rope; a short 
wagon-rope; a rope used for binding a load 
upon the back of a beast. [Local, Eng.] 
wanty^t (won'ti), «.; pi. wanties (-tiz). [Dim. 
of ICO «(■*.] A mole; a moldwarp. 
Some creatures, albeit they l)e alwales covered within 
the ground, yet live and breath nevertheless, and namely 
the scanty or mold-warpes. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, ix. 7. (Encyc. Diet.) 
wan'Witt, ». [ME. wanwit (= O. wahnwitz = Sw. 
vanntt = Dan. ranvid) ; < wan- + wit.] Lack of 
sense; foolishness. 
Schild mc from poin of helle pit, 
That I hane dcscruud thorow uan-u-ite. 
Holy Rood (F,. E. T. H.), p. 180. 
A Middle English form of wane^. 
or review of persons under arms, formerly made 
at certain times in every district. These exhibi- 
tions or meetings were not designed for military exercises, 
but only to show that the lieges were properly provided 
with arms. The name has been revived in some quarters 
in Great Britain, and applied to the periodical gatherings 
of the volunteer corps of a more or less wide district foi 
review, inspection, shooting competitions, etc. [Scotch.] 
We went to the field of war, 
And to tlie weapon-shaw. 
Up ami War Them A', Willie (Child's Ballads, VIL 265). 
wapenshaw (wop'n-sha), v. i. To hold or at- 
tend a wapenshaw. [Scotch.] 
wapenslia-wing (wop'n-sha-ing), n. [= D. wa- 
pensclwuwing ; as wapenshaw -¥ -inij^.] Same 
as wapenshaw. 
But thir ridings and wappe mhatvings, my leddy, I Iiao 
nae no broo o' them ava. Scott, Old Jlortality, vii. 
wantsum; wapentake (wop'n-tak), n. [< ME. wapen- 
Or nudum, take, wipentake, < AS. wsepengetsec, wiepentac, 
a district, a wapentake (AL. wapentac or wap- 
entagium), adapted from Icel. rapnatak, < vap- 
na, gen. pi. of vapin, a weapon (= AS. wirpen 
= E. iceapon), -h -tak, a taking hold, a grasp- 
ing, esp. a grasp in wrestling (used of the con- 
tact of weapons), < taka, take, grasp, seize, 
touch: see weapon and take, and cf . wapenshaw.] 
Formerly, in certain counties of northern, 
eastern," and midland England, a division or 
subdivision of a shire, generally corresponding 
to a hundred in other counties. The term seems 
to have been originally applied to the arnied assemblies 
of freemen ; and there is possiljly an allusion to a practice 
of taking up or "touching" the arms. Wapentake is still 
a territorial division in Yorkshire. 
Ing. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 36. wanyandt, "• Same as waniand. 
.Shall a beardless boy, 
A cocker'd silken leatiton, brave our fields? 
Shak., K. John, v. 1. 70. 
a lascivious man or wo- 
2. A lewd person 
man. 
K ye be set on pleasure, or disposed to wantons, ye shall 
have ministers enough to be furtherers ami instruments 
of it. iMtimer, 2d .Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 15.'.0. 
wanton won'ton), o. [< wanton, a.] I. in- 
Irans. 1. To revel; frolic unrestrainedly; 
sport. 
When, like some childish wench, she loosely wantoning 
With tricks and gidily turns seems to inisle the shore. 
Drayton, I'olyolbion, ii. 174. 
Nature here 
Wanton'd as in her prime. .Villon, P. I.., v. 294. 
Her eap-strlngs wantoned in front of lier In the rising 
wind. .">•». (Mi/h'int, May, iii. 
2. To sport or dally in lewdness; sport las- 
civiously. 
wanzet, v. i. See wanse. 
wap' (wop), v. ; pret. and pp. wapped, ppr. wap- 
pintf. [< ME. wappen; cf. whap. whop, and 
qua'p^.guoiA.] I. trans. 1. To strike; knock; 
beat; wallop; drub. [CoUoq.] 
Why, either of my boys could wap him with one hand. 
Thackeray. 
2. To flap ; flutter. [Scotch.] 
There 's nae a cock in a' the land 
But has wappit its wings and crawn. 
Glasyerian (Allingliams Ballad-book), p. S61. 
3. To toss or throw quickly. [Scotch.] 
Tak a halter in tliy liose. 
And o' thy puriwse dinna fail ; 
Bnt wap it o'er the Wanton's nose. 
iMchinabm Harper (Child's Ballads, VI. 4). 
II. inlrans. To flutter; flap the wings; move 
violently. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
wapl (wop), n. [<ME. wappe; < ivap^, v.] A 
smart stroke : a Idow. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
It is written that King Allured, or Alfred, who then 
raigncd, did devide the realnie into shires, and the shirts 
into hundrethes, and the huiiilrethes into rapes or wapen- 
takes, and the ivapentakes into tithinges, .Soe that tenii 
tithinges made an hiindrethe, and live made a lathe or 
wapentake. Sjienser, State of Ireland. 
The wapentake is found only in the Anglian districts. 
... To tlie north of these districts the shires are divided 
into wards, and to tlio south into hundreds. Hence the 
wapentake may be a relic of Scandinavian occupation. 
StiMis, Const. Hist., § 4f. 
wapiti (wop'i-ti), n. [Also wapjiiti, wapite. teaji- 
pite; < Amer. Ind. (Cree) wapitik, 'white deer,' 
said to designate the Kocky Mountain goat, 
Haploceros montunus; used as E., and also ifi 
the NL. form Cervus wapiti, by B. S. Barton, in 
1809, for the animal defined.] The Nortli Amer- 
ican stag or elk, Vervus eanaden.si.i, which is the 
North American representative of the stag or 
red deer of Europe, and resembles the latter, 
though it is much larger and of a strotiger make, 
being one of the largest living representatives 
of the family Corrida: Wapiti is chiefly a book-name 
of tills deer, which has generally lieen known since about 
1809 as the elk— A name applied in Europe to a very ilifter- 
ent animal, corresponding to that called tnooae in North 
America. (See c»l (with cut), moose, stag.) The full-grown 
male wapiti may exceed a height of 16 hands at tlie with- 
ers, and acquire a weight of more than ],IKH1 pounds, 
though not averaging over 600 ; the form is short for its 
stature. Tlie coat is some shade of yellow ish-gi ay or 
brownish-gray, darkening to chestniit-bniKn on the head. 
