Category:Wan

Wan, obs. imp. of win.

Defn: won. Chaucer.

Wan Wan (, a. Etym: [as. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, Perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. See win.]

Defn: 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 Wan, n.

Defn: the quality of being wan; wanness. [r.] Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Tennyson.

Wan Wan, v. i.

Defn: 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.