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Want of occupation.

Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [R.]

on into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries. All that is wanting to the perfection of this art will undoubtedly be found, if able men . . . will make inquiry into it. Dryden. Court of inquiry. See under Court. -- Writ of inquiry, a writ issued in certain actions at law, where the defen…

Want of knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.]

The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

The condition or quality of being insignificant; want of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases.

The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly n…

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.

Want of intelligence; stupidity; folly. [R.] Blount.

Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish. [R.] Clarendon. -- n.

Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.

The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

Want of solidity; weakness; as, the insolidity of an argument. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

The quality or condition of being unstable; want of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building.

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