wante

English

Noun

wante (plural wantes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of want
    • 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
      But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke.

Verb

wante (third-person singular simple present wantes or wanteth, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted)

  1. Obsolete spelling of want
    • 1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete:
      I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass.
    • 1890, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1:
      We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers.

Anagrams

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch want in the meaning of "mitten".

Noun

wante

  1. glove
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