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Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

Want of ability.

Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.

Want of cohesion.

Want or failure of discovery.

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

Want of limitation; failure to limit.

Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.

Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.

Want of due regard; disregard; slight. [Obs.] Shak.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit.

r him. Shak. Where neither party is nor true, nor kind. Shak. Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there. Dryden.

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

Indistinctness; want of development.

Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.

of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.

ations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.