Word Meanings - AWANTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Missing; wanting. Sir W. Hamilton.

Related words: (words related to AWANTING)

• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• MISSILE
  A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
• MISSPEND
  To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• MISSTATE
  To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• MISSIONER
  A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.
• MISSPENDER
  One who misspends.
• MISSPENT
  of Misspend.
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• MISSELDINE
  The mistletoe. Baret.
• MISSISH
  Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss"ish*ness, n.
• MISSAL
  Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book. Bp. Hall.
• MISSINGLY
  With a sense of loss. Shak.
• MISSIT
  To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome. Chaucer.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• EMISSITIOUS
  Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.
• PERMISSIBILITY
  The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.