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se laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires. Krauth-Fleming.

a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.

Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. While our obedience holds. Milton. The rule holds in land as all other commodities. Locke.

Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.

cestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting. Haeckel.

The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.

The state or quality of being horizontal. Kirwan.

a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped. The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. Thomson.

anine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, cou…

. . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury. He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.

Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

Wanting food; starved. [Obs.] Shak.

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.

Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building. Gwilt.

so, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual. Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts. Fairfax. Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind. Shak. This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination…

Idleness. [Archaic] "In ydlesse." Spenser. And an idlesse all the day Beside a wandering stream. Mrs. Browning.

The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

hrow out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.