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Want of piety. [Obs.]

Want of pleasantry. [R.]

Want of power; weakness. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Want of proficiency or improvement. Bp. Hall.

Want of profit; unprofitableness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity. Abbot of Unreason. See Abbot of Misrule, under Abbot.

Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.

Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! Chaucer. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast Tennyson.

Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.] If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.

Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. [R.] Puller.

Want of skill; ignorance; unskillfulness. [Obs.] Sylvester.

Want of strength; weakness; feebleness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Want of success; failure; misfortune. Prof. Wilson.

Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts.

Want of thrift; untriftiness; prodigality.

The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty. Chaucer.

Want or lack of usage. [Obs.] Chaucer.