قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.

The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.

A boomerang.

Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.

The wane of the moon.

of Wane

The act or process of waning, or decreasing.

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.

Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.

In a wan, or pale, manner.

Made wan, or pale.

The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

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.

Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.

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.

A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

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.

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.