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al errors, those errors in instrumental measurements, etc., which arise, exclusively from want of mathematical accuracy in an instrument.

Want of suavity; unpleasantness. [Obs.] Burton.

Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.

Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.

Want of success. [R.] Feltham.

The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc. The insufficiency of the light of nature is, by the light of Scripture, . . . fully supplied. Hooker.

Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

Want of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.

otographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.

Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.

The want of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies. Kirwan.

Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another. Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced. Shak. Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. I. Watts.

The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan.

Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

Want of use; disuse. [R.] Paley.

Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.

or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. Dryden.