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- English Word Wandy Definition Long and flexible, like a wand.
- English Word Wane Definition To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
- English Word Wane Definition To decline; to fail; to sink.
- English Word Wane Definition To cause to decrease.
- English Word Wane Definition The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
- English Word Wane Definition Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
- English Word Wane Definition An inequality in a board.
- English Word Waned Definition of Wane
- English Word Waney Definition A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.
- English Word Wang Definition The jaw, jawbone, or cheek bone.
- English Word Wang Definition A slap; a blow.
- English Word Wang Definition See Whang.
- English Word Wangan Definition A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.
- English Word Wanger Definition A pillow for the cheek; a pillow.
- English Word Wanghee Definition The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.
- English Word Wango Definition A boomerang.
- English Word Wanhope Definition Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
- English Word Wanhorn Definition An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.
- English Word Waniand Definition The wane of the moon.
- English Word Waning Definition of Wane
- English Word Waning Definition The act or process of waning, or decreasing.
- English Word Wanion Definition A word of uncertain signification, used only in the phrase with a wanion, apparently equivalent to with a vengeance, with a plague, or with misfortune.
- English Word Wankle Definition Not to be depended on; weak; unstable.
- English Word Wanly Definition In a wan, or pale, manner.
- English Word Wanned Definition Made wan, or pale.
- English Word Wanness Definition The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.
- English Word Wannish Definition Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.
- English Word Want Definition The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
- English Word Want Definition Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
- English Word Want Definition That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.