want

want:    1. (a) low mental ability

   A shortened form of a want of understanding etc.:

    I had a want and been daft likewise. (Gait, 1826)

   And in several phrases, indicating a shortage from a full complement, such as want some pence in a shilling:

    ... of rather a wild frantic nature, and seem to want 'some pence in the shilling'. (Mactaggart, 1824)

   Whence the common adjective, wanting, for a slow-witted person.

    Junior had always been slightly wanting. (Fraser, 1994)

   2. to lust after

   This kind of want is not for social intercourse:

    Yet he wanted my mother, his half-sister, and in trying to get his way with her caused her untold agony of mind. (Cookson, 1969)

   Specifically, as want sex, a body, intercourse, it, love, relations, etc.:

    Since she was fifteen, men had wanted her body. (Allbeury, 1976)

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want — verb. 1. Want is of Norse origin and came into English in the 13c. The dominant meaning in current usage is ‘to desire or wish for’ (Tom wants a computer for Christmas / What do you want to do now?), and a range of earlier meanings equivalent to… … Modern English usage
want — [wänt, wônt] vt. [ME wanten < ON vanta, to be lacking, want: see WANT the n.] 1. to have too little of; be deficient in; lack 2. to be short by (a specified amount) [it wants twelve minutes of midnight] 3. to feel the need of; long for; crave… … English World dictionary
Want — Want, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wanting}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Want — (277), n. [Originally an adj., from Icel. vant, neuter of vanr lacking, deficient. [root]139. See {Wane}, v. i.] [1913 Webster] 1. The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Want It — Studioalbum von SheSays Veröffentlichung 1. Juni 2007 Label Virgin Records Format … Deutsch Wikipedia
want — I noun absence, conatus, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, desire, destitution, distress, exigency, impoverishment, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessitude, necessity, need, needfulness, neediness, paucity, pauperism … Law dictionary
Want — Want, v. i. [Icel. vanta to be wanting. See {Want} to lack.] [1913 Webster] 1. To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
want — want; want·age; want·er; want·less; want·less·ness; … English syllables
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