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Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

y good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45 But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.

To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson.

ations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.

Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. "Awless insolence." Dryden.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. "Baby figure" Shak.

Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). "Bankrupt in gratitude." Sheridan. Bankrupt law, a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surre…

pty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden.

Shale or bituminous shale. Kirwan.

Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. Whitworth.

The wanton slaughter of game. Howitt.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly. Lost and bewildered in the fruitless search. Addison.

Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. Kirwan.

Producing bitumen. Kirwan.

can Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

s fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. Arsenic abounds with air blebs. Kirwan.