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Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope.

my charge to you. Shak. The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied. Swift.

See Wanderoo.

Dressed in silk. "A . . . silken wanton." Shak.

Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

tanding. [Obsoles.] That by his fellowship he color mightskill of any wight. Spenser. Nor want we skill or art. Milton.

Wanting skill. Shak.

Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.

A wanton girl; a light wench. [Obs.]

Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle. "Skittish Fortune's hall." Shak. -- Skit"tish*ly, adv. -- Skit"tish*ness, n.

ut of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. Dryden.

eless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.

The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton.

Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin. [Spelt also slazy.]

Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] Shak. The vexation of a sleeveless errand. Bp. Warburton.

Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. Shak. Slippery elm. (Bot.) (a) An American tree (Ulmus fulva) with a mucilagenous and slightly aromatic inner bark which is sometimes used medicinally; also, the inner bark itself. (b) A malvaceous shrub (Fremontia Californica); -- so called on the Pacific coast.

ted genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.

Wanting a smock. Chaucer.

Covered with serpents; having serpents; as, a snaky rod or wand. Dryden. That snaky-headed, Gorgon shield. Milton.