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Webster 1913 Edition
Wan
Wan
,Adj.
[AS.
wann
, wonn
, wan
, won
, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan
to labor, strive. See Win
.] Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
“Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.” Spenser.
My color . . . [is]
wan
and of a leaden hue. Chaucer.
Why so pale and
wan
, fond lover? Suckling.
With the
wan
moon overhead. Longfellow.
Wan
,Noun.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
[R.]
Tinged with
wan
from lack of sleep. Tennyson.
Wan
,Verb.
I.
To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
“All his visage wanned.” Shak.
And ever he mutter’d and madden'd, and ever
wann'd
with despair. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Wan
WAN
,Adj.
Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?