A person who wants to be or become a different type of person -- what the person wants to be is usually clear from the context; at hollywood and vine one can meet both famous actors and wannabes.

Made wan, or pale.

The quality or state of being wan; a sallow, dead, pale color; paleness; pallor; as, the wanness of the cheeks after a fever.

Somewhat wan; of a pale hue.

That which is wanting; deficiency.

Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.

Having no want; abundant; fruitful.

To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness.

To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton.

In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.

The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.

Failing or diminishing trust; want of trust or confidence; distrust.

One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.

A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope.

Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.

To wane; to wither.

A blow or beating; a whap.

The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.

The edible tuber of a species of arrowhead (Sagittaria variabilis); -- so called by the Indians of Oregon.

Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected.

In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.

An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district.

The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.

A fair-leader. A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.

See Wapatoo.

A word of doubtful meaning used once by Shakespeare.

A gudgeon.

A small yelping cur.

Yelping.

To make war upon; to fight.

Warworn.

A quavering modulation of the voice; a musical trill; a song.

One who, or that which, warbles; a singer; a songster; -- applied chiefly to birds.

In a warbling manner.

To be vigilant; to keep guard.

The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise.

Guardian; one set to watch over another.

The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.

Designating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from a distance; as, a Wardian case of plants; -- so named from the inventor, Nathaniel B. Ward, an Englishman.

Anciently, a meeting of the inhabitants of a ward; also, a court formerly held in each ward of London for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.

A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.

The office of a ward or keeper; care and protection of a ward; guardianship; right of guardianship.

A man who keeps ward; a guard.

To make ware; to warn; to take heed of; to beware of; to guard against.

Wary; watchful; cautious.

Wariness; cautiousness.

A storehouse for wares, or goods.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store.

Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware.

Cautiously; warily.

Madder.

A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.

See 4th Ware.

To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.

One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

Fit for war.

The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also w/rger, worrier, and throttler.

In a wary manner.

A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.

To be cured; to recover.

Work; a building.

A tool; an implement.

Fit for war; disposed for war; as, a warlike state; a warlike disposition.

Quality of being warlike.

One often quarreled with; -- / word coined, perhaps, to rhyme with darling.

Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.

Impishness; magic.

Warlike.

The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.

One who, or that which, warms.

Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment.

a. n. from Warm, v.

In a warm manner; ardently.

Warmth.

One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary.

An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

The quality or state of being warm; gentle heat; as, the warmth of the sun; the warmth of the blood; vital warmth.

Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.

To refuse.

A warrener.

Previous notice.

In a warning manner.

To furnish.

To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.

The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.

One who, or that which, warps or twists out of shape.

The act or process of one who, or that which, warps.

Valor tried by war.

The dingo.

The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.

Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.

The person to whom a warrant or warranty is made.

One who warrants, gives authority, or legally empowers.

To warrant.

One who warrants.

To warrant; to guarantee.

To make war upon. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Worse.

The keeper of a warren.

See Wariangle.

See Warye.

An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot.

A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion.

A female warrior.

See Warye.

The black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) of the southern coasts of the United States. The jewfish; -- called also guasa.

Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

Having no wart.

Same as Wartwort.

A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons.

A dark brown or black mineral, occurring in prismatic crystals imbedded in limestone near Warwick, New York. It consists of the borate and titanate of magnesia and iron.

Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat.