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- - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

Deficiency or want of bile.

Wanting a skull.

To sentence; to condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton.

aulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

Imbecility; total want of understanding.

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

A wanton woman; a courtesan. Sir T. Herbert.

Wanting the spinal cord.

Wanting in muscle; without flesh.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.

Want or defect of sight; blindness.

Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. Coxe.

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair."…

Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.