WAN

n. a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Won. Chaucer.

2.
a.

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.

3.
n.

The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.] Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Tennyson.

4.
v.

To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. "All his visage wanned." Shak. And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. Tennyson.

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