Note: Want was formerly used impersonally with an indirect object.
"Him wanted audience." Chaucer.
WA'N'T
Wa'n't.
Defn: A colloquial contraction of was not.
WANTAGE
Want"age, n.
Defn: That which is wanting; deficiency.
WANTING
Want"ing, a.
Defn: Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.
WANTLESS
Want"less, a.
Defn: Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
WANTON Wan"ton, a. Etym: [OE. wantoun, contr. from wantowen; pref. wan- wanting (see Wane, v. i.), hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, properly, ill bred. See Tug, v. t.]