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. - PROMISSORILY
In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne. - 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. - 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.