单词 | wan |
释义 | † wann.1 Scottish. Obsolete. A dark or livid mark produced by a blow; a bruise. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > bruise brusurea1375 frousshure1477 bruise1533 wan1533 battering1558 squat1578 intuse1590 battery1594 crush1601 contusiona1616 sugillation1623 mishanter1754 stone bruise1805 rainbow1810 birze1818 pound1862 strawberry1921 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 167 He..had done grete vassalege baith for þe honoure & defence of þe ciete, as weil apperit be sindri wannys & markis in his face and vther partis of his body. 1567 Gude & Godlie Ballads (S.T.S.) 32 He it is, quhilk geuis wan and wound, And suddanlie he will mak haill and sound. 1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 59 [The knicht] fand his Sone withouttin wan or wound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † wann.2 Obsolete. 1. A winnowing fan: = van n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > winnowing > fan, cloth, or basket fana800 windlec1175 weight1354 winnowing-cloth1375 winnow-sheetc1394 winnow-cloth1404 vanc1450 wind-cloth1500 wimsheet1532 winding-cloth1548 shaul1553 winnow1580 wan?1615 sail-fan1707 wind-screen1763 wind-sheet1891 ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xi. 163 What dost thou with that wanne [Gk. ἀθηρηλοιγόν, winnowing fan], vpon thy necke? 2. The sail of a windmill: = van n.1 5.Commonly spelt wand, the word being wrongly supposed to be a corruption of wand n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > windmill > sail sailc1440 wing1484 ventaila1529 vane1581 sweep1702 arm1724 windsail1725 wind-vane1725 swift1763 wan1767 flyer1790 van1837 1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 77 The sails or wands of the mill..struck her so violently on the head, as to fracture her skull. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Wan, a corruption of wand. ‘A yardwan.’—‘A mill-wan.’ 1846 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Hist. Div. V. 97 The wands of the..wind mill..were forced round with such velocity, that by the friction of the machinery, the mill was set on fire. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Wands pl., long flexible rods. The sail frames of a windmill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). WANn.3 Computing. = wide area network n. at wide adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > wide area network wide area network1975 WAN1983 1983 Financial Times 11 Apr. iii. p. xix/1 Eventually, local area networks will be expected to spread over much larger areas.., with many miles..separating computer users. In computer jargon, networks that become wide area networks, or WAN's. 1986 Your Business Mar. 47/1 They should also have a ‘WAN’—wide area network—facility so that your organisation can talk to the computers of other organisations. 1991 InfoWorld 14 Jan. s6/1 The transition to a corporatewide, LAN/WAN network can leave many LAN administrators feeling like they're living their worst nightmare. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wanadj.1 a. Lacking light, or lustre; dark-hued, dusky, gloomy, dark. Obsolete. Chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] duneOE thestera900 thestria900 wana1000 darkfulOE fadec1290 obscurousa1492 black-faced1562 murkyc1590 gloomy1594 tenebrous1599 solemn1604 overcast1616 mungy1632 shady1746 sombrous1754 sombre1760 gloomyish1821 gloomfula1849 ebonine1881 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dark, dusky, or dim browna1000 wana1000 dusk?c1225 blacka1393 duskish1530 dusky1580 blacksome1597 duskyish1794 offusc1849 adusk1856 the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > dark wana1000 swartOE darkOE under-dark1382 sad1415 swartish1483 sable?a1513 dark-coloured?1523 swarth?1527 fuskish1563 swarty1572 saturnine1581 sable-suiteda1592 sable visaged1608 gloomy1632 sable-vested1667 fuscous1671 umbratile1678 sable-hooded1770 gangrenous1794 burnt1897 bead-dark1937 OE Beowulf 702 Com on wanre niht scriðan sceadugenga. a1000 Boeth. Metr. xi. 61 Hwæt, þa wonnan niht mona onlihteð. c1230 Hali Meid. 43 Ant tah is betere a briht iacinct þen a charbucle won. a1300 Signs bef. Judgm. 43 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 8 As fair and briȝte as þou seest ham hi worþ be-com as blak as cole and be of hiwe durke and wan for man-is sin þat hi sul þole. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 488 In the furd weill that was bath wan and depe Feyll off thaim fell. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 458 in Poems (1981) 21 In froist and snaw, in wedder wan and weit. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. C.vv With vysage wan As wart as tan. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 303 So dang he þat dog with dynt of his wappon, Þat þe warlag was wete of his wan atter. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6000 Mony chivalrous Achilles choppit to dethe: All his wedis were wete of þaire wan blode. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 244 The Ocean bringeth forth pearle also, not orient, but duskish and wanne. b. esp. in conventional application in poetry to the sea (waves, etc.) or other waters.The original significance was perhaps that of ‘dark-hued’, but the sense often approaches, or is blended with, the next.In more recent poetry the word is probably (except by conscious archaism) to be understood rather as ‘grey, pale’, but the gloomy connotation remains. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dark-coloured darkeOE blackeOE browna1000 swartOE wanOE murka1325 darkish?c1425 duska1450 dusketly1486 sad?1504 duskish1530 base1539 dusky1558 swarthy1577 darksome1598 smutty1648 subfusc?1705 infuscated1727 murky1759 subfuscous1762 sable1791 sombrous1799 obfuscous1822 sombre1829 wine-dark1855 murkish1869 OE Beowulf 1374 Þonon yðgeblond up astigeð won to wolcnum. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 492 Wery to the wane see they went alle att ones. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1598 Myn is the drenchyng in the See so wan. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 814 Her is na gait to fle ȝone peple can Bot Rochis heich and wattir depe and wan. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 9 Quhair that tyme almost tha had all bene lost, Throw wan tydis so stark ran by the land. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4633 The storme..walt vp the wilde se vppon wan hilles. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) ii. l. 1246 in Shorter Poems (1967) 80 Ouir watres wan thorow worthi woddis grene. a1780 Johnie Cock xvii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 4/1 She'd ha wet her foot ith wan water, And sprinkled it oer my brae. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 33 Do you yet mind at landing how the quay Looked like a blind wet face in waste of wind And washing of wan waves? 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xviii. 337 Looking outside across the wan water for the sails which never came. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [adjective] > lead grey leadenc1386 wana1398 leadish1398 leady1398 plumby1486 plumbine1597 leaden-coloured1598 lead-coloured1611 plumbean1656 plumbeous1658 lead-grey1837 leaden-hued1877 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xx. 1291 Leede is white by kynde, þough it be wanne wiþoute. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in T. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652) 56 Colour wan as Lead. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. A.iijv His lyppes be as wan as lede. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 183 A wan leadish colour. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] litherc893 unledeeOE evil971 missOE murkOE unrighteousOE unseelyOE un-i-seliOE unselec1050 wickc1175 foul-itowenc1225 unwrast?c1225 un-i-felec1275 wickedc1275 wrakefula1350 felonousc1374 unquertc1390 unperfect1395 felona1400 wanc1440 meschant?c1450 sinnyc1475 unselc1480 poison?1527 pernicious?1533 scelerous1534 viperous?1548 improbate1596 scelestious1609 scelestic1628 spider-like1655 dark-hearted1656 demonic1796 nineteda1798 sinful1863 the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > shed in weeping > attributes of tears saltc1175 wanc1540 brinish1580 briny1608 shrill1608 swellinga1616 sea-salt1897 c1440 York Myst. vii. 38 Me for to were fro warkes wanne. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 407 Gratius God that hes all thing in erd, At his weilding to weill or ȝit wan werd. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3602 There is no worship in weping, ne in wan teres! ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > looking ill wanc700 sunken?a1505 wersh?a1505 wearisha1535 waryish1565 sunk1578 chap-fallen1597 chop-fallen1604 squalid1661 sallow1747 sallowish1753 peaked1804 shilpit1813 shirpit1821 peely-wally1832 peakish1836 the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > discoloured wanc700 blaec1325 bluec1390 swarta1400 livid?a1425 pinch-spotteda1616 jaundiced1640 blue in the face1792 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adjective] > livid wanc700 blaea1325 bloa1325 bluec1390 livid?a1425 lividous1598 haw1768 blue in the face1792 c700 Epinal Gloss. 576 Livida toxica: tha uuannan aetrinan. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Pet. ii. 24 And he hym silf bar oure synnes in his bodi on a tre, that we be deed to synnes, and lyue to riȝtwisnesse, bi whos wan wounde ȝe ben heelid. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxxviii. 932 Pouder þerof [sc. comyn] wel ymedled with wex doþ away wan colour þat comeþ of smytyng. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xxi. 1291 Wanne colour is euel in men and in bestes. For it tokeneþ..anguissh of þe herte þat draweþ inward þe hete of blood. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 24470 Þi bodi is wanne as þou ware dede. 1483 Cath. Angl. 408/1 Wann.., cerulus, ceruleus, pallidus, liuidus. a1525 Ballat Our Lady in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 272 Þy sone Ihesu with his woundis wan Quhilk deinȝeit him for oure trespass to de. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. UUUviv And those most beautyfull and fayre chekes all blowe & wane, with buffettes and beatynges. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiii. 16 Evill lyfe, and langour but releif Off woundis wan. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biii/1 Wan,..liuidus. 1615 J. Sylvester tr. H. Smith Micro-cosm. 71 The Nobler states with Enuy wan, Without end are torne and tost. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ix. ix. 273 If..the wan and deadly color of the Face..be restored, there is hope of Health. 4. a. Pallid, faded, sickly; unusually or unhealthily pale. Most frequently applied to the human face (or to things with conscious metaphor from this application). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > of face wana1300 ashc1374 tallow-face1597 whey countenance1604 lily1713 suet face1896 a1300 Cursor Mundi 24471 Þi face es wan as ros vnrede. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 33 Nihtes when y wende ant wake, forþi myn wonges waxeþ won. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 419 Thenne awakyde he wel wan and wolde haue ydronke. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4547 For lene he was, and wan þe face. c1450 in Retrosp. Rev. (1853) Nov. 104 On a greene hylle he sawe a tree,..Pale hyt was and wanne of blee. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 328/2 Wanne of coloure, palle, yndeux, blesme. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8034 All wan was the weghe for his wete teres. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 120 One..opposed Diogenes with this question, for what cause golde looked to the yie somewhat pale and wanne of coloure? 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Cc.iv In like maner where she is somwhat fatter or leaner then reasonable sise, or wanner, or browner, to helpe it with garmentes. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 51 Theire face wan withred in hunger. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge Prol. sig. A2 The wan bleak cheek of the numd earth. 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 360 His Body was now cold, and wanne, stiffe, and still. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 290 So thin, so ghastly meagre, and so wan, So bare of flesh, he scarce resembled Man. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 275 The wan and meager countenances of the crew. 1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 391 There, wan from her maternal throes, His Margaret, beautiful and mild, Sate in her bower, a pallid rose. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Christabel ii. 44 Why is thy cheek so wan and wild, Sir Leoline? 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. v. 194 The hangings were wan and colourless. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlvi. 507 The crowd of wan emaciated faces. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 120 Dawn broke at last, wan and blear in the south. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 329 The thickening of the blood in cholera is sufficient to account for the fall of arterial pressure, the diminished size of the pulse,..and the wan appearance of the patient. b. esp. in pale and wan (wan and pale). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 551 He for wo was pale and wan. 1447 O. Bokenham Faith in Lyvys Seyntys 375 Bryht of ble He was & of colour neþir pale ne wan. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xiii. 4 Thar feris fleand pail and wan haue thai sene, And thar cheif ennemy closyt in thar wallis. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z2 As pale and wan as ashes was his looke. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 90 Why doth your highnes looke so pale and wan ? View more context for this quotation 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. ix. 321 Drusus sometimes a Tribune of the Commons in Rome, dranke (as it is reported) Goats bloud, to make himselfe look pale and wan in the face. 1679 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 333 He was grown pale, wan, lean and long-visaged. 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Blank (pale and wan), pallens, pallidus. 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 675 Yea, many a visage wan and pale, Will hang at midnight o'er my tale. 1867 M. E. Braddon R. Godwin i Clara Westford's noble face is pale and wan this sunny morning. c. a wan smile, a faint or forced smile (as of one sick or unhappy). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [noun] > a smile > other types of smile smilet1591 beam1773 sun-smile1808 a wan smile1877 shit-eating grin1956 shit-eating grin1990 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 217 With a wan smile as she sees her friend's grieved face. 1896 A. Conan Doyle Exploits Brig. Gerard (1903) v. 190 ‘But,’ he added, with a wan smile, ‘my Lenten fare is always somewhat meagre’. d. Applied to the (light of) heavenly bodies, etc.: Faint, sickly, partially obscured. Also, of white objects, etc.: Dull, lustreless. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] dima1000 darkOE troublea1327 palec1385 dullc1430 unclearc1440 unbright1534 cloudy1556 unlight1570 muddy1600 wan1601 opacous1616 filmy1642 illuminous1656 crepuscular1668 dumb1720 rayless1754 opaque1794 veilya1802 turbid1811 unlucent1819 ineffulgent1824 blear1830 unrefulgent1856 subluminous1860 subaqueous1875 shineless1882 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xxx. 17 In the warres of Antonie, the Sunne continued almost a yeere long with a pale and wan colour. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xi. i. 145 The Moon grows wanne, and starres flie all away, Whom Lucifer locks up in wonted folds. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 412 The blasted Starrs lookt wan . View more context for this quotation 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xxvii. 14 Ye mildews wan. 1815 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 301 The sky is overcast.., Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon. 1861 J. Thomson Ladies of Death xxii Moonless nights when stars are few and wan. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xxv. 426 There were wan glimmerings of sunshine across the sea. 1889 R. Bridges Sonn. lvii In autumn moonlight, when the white air wan Is fragrant in the wake of summer. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > light or pale whiteeOE palec1350 lighta1398 whitey1556 bleak1566 wan1567 whitish1577 pasty1607 mirage1927 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 3v Whose interchanged greene colour resembleth almost the wan and yelow colour of Golde. 5. absol. quasi-n. Wan hue, wanness. poetic. ΚΠ 1821 J. Baillie Lady G. Baillie in Metrical Legends iv She saw a faint glow tinge the sickly wan. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 47 Melissa, tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Compounds C1. General attributive: chiefly parasynthetic. wan-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1820 C. Wodarch Introd. Study Conchol. 12 Which..seldom exhibits any other appearance than that of a livid or wan-colored surface. wan-faced adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 1881 ‘Rita’ My Lady Coquette x It is a sorrowful, wan-faced girl. 1913 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 281/1 Wan-faced men and towsel-haired women. wan visaged adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 203 Wan wisaged widdefow, out of thy wit gane wyld. C2. Complementary and adverbial. wan-looking adj. ΚΠ 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 58 Wasted and wan-looking folks. wan-silvering adj. ΚΠ 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur v. i Wan-silvering through the hush, the cresset shone O'er the arch seer. wan-worn adj. ΚΠ 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 141 To haue her painting wiped from her riueld browes and wan-worn cheeks. C3. Rarely qualifying other adjectives descriptive of colour. wan-sallow adj. ΚΠ 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 29 A man of mien Wan-sallow as the plant that feels itself Root-bitten by white lichen. ΚΠ ?1527 Iudycyall of Vryns iii. xix. 61 And sume Auctours saye that wan~whyte colour in vryn..sheweth begynnyng of digestyon. C4. Faded or decaying woodland (nonce-word). wanwood n. ΚΠ c1880 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 89 Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wanv.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (intransitive)] > become dark wanc1000 darken1731 c1000 Vercelli MS. 23 b/7 Þonne wannað he & doxaþ; oðre hwile he bið blæc & æhiwe. c1230 Hali Meid. 35 Þine ehnen schulen doskin & under þon wonnen. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4142 Þe son wadis, Þe werd wannes at a wap & þe wedire gloumes. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 4627 Quen it [gold] walows & wannes all oure thestres, Ȝet ere we toghid to & fra be turnyng of eldris. 2. To grow pale. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > lose colour [verb (intransitive)] > grow pale blakea1225 fallowa1250 blokec1275 palec1400 wan1582 bleacha1616 blanch1768 lighten1781 sicken1853 unflush1866 sickly1882 the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [verb (intransitive)] > become or turn pale blakea1225 fallowa1250 blokec1275 bloknec1315 bleykec1327 blikena1400 falla1450 to paint pale (also white)a1529 blemish1530 appale1534 to turn (one's) colour1548 wan1582 bleak1605 whiten1775 blench1813 etiolate1882 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 83 Al her visage waning with murther aproching [L. pallida morte futura]. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. E4 I haue a good head of haire, a cheeke Not as yet wan'd. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 556 Is it not monstrous that this player heere..Could force his soule so to his owne conceit That from her working all the visage wand [1623 warm'd]. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 72 Psyche flush'd and wann'd and shook. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud i. iii, in Maud & Other Poems 2 And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. 1866 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid iv. p. 128 The queen,..wanning o'er with death foreseen. 1901 W. E. Henley Hawthorn & Lavender xlvi. 62 And by and by The wide-winged sunset wanned and waned. 1906 F. Thompson Ode Eng. Martyrs 18 The troubled heavens do wan with care. 3. transitive. To make pale. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (transitive)] > make pale wan1889 1889 in Cent. Dict. 1903 T. Hardy Dynasts I. i. iii. 16 The grey glooms of a ghost-eyed despondency Wanned as with winter the national mind. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 96 Miracle..That starry flake Can of its myriads Such wide pastures make, For sun to colour, And for moon to wan. Derivatives wanned adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale blackeOE blokec1200 blakec1275 fadec1290 bleykea1300 palisha1398 wanned1494 ashy?1541 wearish-coloured1548 wanny1555 wheyish1560 bleak1566 paly1568 ghastly1574 blankish1580 sick1599 palled1601 ashied1613 lurid1656 lunar1742 wax-like1748 ashen1808 unbrightened1827 waxy1835 peely-wally1895 waxen-hued1916 1494 R. Fabyan New Chron. Eng. vii. 683 Whoom deth soo stern wyth his wannyd hewe Hath now pursuyd. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. i. 21 All the charmes of Loue, Salt Cleopatra soften thy wand lip. View more context for this quotation 1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 76 When our love-sick queen did weep Over his waned corse. ˈwanning n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > of face > turning wanning1888 1888 Longman's Mag. Feb. 392 Many [actors] assert that the ‘wanning’ of the visage is a common..accompaniment of imagined terror. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : wan-prefix < see also |
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