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Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. "As he was wont to go." Chaucer. If the ox were wont to push with his horn. Ex. xxi. 29.

Accustomed; customary; usual. Again his wonted weapon proved. Spenser. Like an old piece of furniture left alone in its wonted corner. Sir W. Scott. She was wonted to the place, and would not remove. L'Estrange.

The quality or state of being accustomed. [R.] Eikon Basilike.

Unaccustomed. [Obs.] Spenser.

To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed. [Archaic] Sir W. Scott.

Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton.

To be wont. [Obs.] Carew.

Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.

crity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

The annual return of the day on which any notable event took place, or is wont to be celebrated; as, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

hat bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

To infringe or violate, as an obligation, law, or promise. Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . . To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray. Milton

heerfulness; animation. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. Shak.

Concurrence; coöperation. [Obs.] The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding. Barrow.

That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient. And they missed Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss. Emerson.

as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution. Boyle.

ould be held in subjection by such a dapper little man. Milton. The dapper ditties that I wont devise. Spenser. Sharp-nosed, dapper steam yachts. Julian Hawthorne.

To discipline; to correct. [Obs.] And bitter Penance, with an iron whip, Was wont him once to disple every day. Spenser.

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.