want (n.)
- absence
- adulteration
- ardor
- ask
- awayness
- beggary
- blank
- break
- claim
- collapse
- concupiscence
- curiosity
- dearth
- decline
- defalcation
- default
- defect
- defectiveness
- deficiency
- deficit
- demand
- deprivation
- desideratum
- desire
- destitution
- discontinuity
- drive
- drought
- eagerness
- erroneousness
- essential
- exigency
- fallibility
- famine
- fancy
- fantasy
- faultiness
- favor
- gap
- gripe
- hiatus
- homelessness
- hope
- immaturity
- impairment
- impecuniousness
- imperfection
- impoverishment
- impurity
- inaccuracy
- inadequacy
- inadequateness
- incompleteness
- indigence
- inexactitude
- inexactness
- insufficiency
- interval
- lack
- lacuna
- lag
- libido
- like
- love
- lust
- meagerness
- mediocrity
- mendicancy
- mind
- miss
- must
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- nonexistence
- nonoccurrence
- occasion
- omission
- ought
- outage
- passion
- patchiness
- pauperism
- pauperization
- penury
- pinch
- pleasure
- poorness
- prerequisite
- privation
- requirement
- requisite
- requisition
- scantiness
- serve
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- sketchiness
- slump
- starvation
- subtraction
- ullage
- unevenness
- unsoundness
- urge
- will
- wish
want (v.)
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.
In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh
Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,
And lonely want retir'd to die.
Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply!
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.
He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.
From toil he wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
Rich, from the very want of wealth,
In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
That earth affords or grows by kind:
Though much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
