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单词 wan
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† wann.1

Forms: 1500s plural wannis, wannys.
Etymology: Perhaps a substantive use of wan adj.1 But compare wen n.1
Scottish. Obsolete.
A dark or livid mark produced by a blow; a bruise.
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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

Forms: Also 1600s wanne, 1700s–1800s wand.
Etymology: ? < Dutch wanne (now wan ): see van n.1
Obsolete.
1. A winnowing fan: = van n.1 1.
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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.
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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

Brit. /wan/, U.S. /wæn/
Etymology: Acronym, after LAN n.
Computing.
= wide area network n. at wide adj. Compounds 2.
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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

Brit. /wɒn/, U.S. /wɑn/
Forms: Old English wan(n, won(n, Middle English– wan, Middle English won, Middle English wane, wonn, Middle English–1500s wann(e, Middle English wonne.
Etymology: Old English wann (wǫnn), dark, gloomy, black. Not found in any of the other germanic languages. Its original sense appears to have been ‘dark in hue’, with especially frequent application to things of gloomy unpleasant associations.Relationships to win v.1 (Old Germanic *winnan to strive, toil, suffer, etc.), or to wound n., or wen n.1, present difficulties of sense-development or form. Relationship to wane n.1 etc. is possible (compare Celtic *wanno-, Old Irish fann, Welsh gwan faint, weak, feeble), but association of the two words in later (Middle English and ModE.) periods is more probable than ultimate connection. In addition to this association the application to heavenly bodies, when obscured, or when compared to others more bright, possibly aided the general application to pale things. The application to the human face etc., when of unwholesome or unusual colour (through various emotions, disease, or death), also provided a possible occasion of sense-change. The senses ‘livid,’ ‘sallow’, and ‘pale, sickly’ are often indistinguishable.
†1.
a. Lacking light, or lustre; dark-hued, dusky, gloomy, dark. Obsolete. Chiefly poetic.
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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.
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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.
†c. Applied to lead, or things compared to it (in colour). Obsolete.
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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.
†2. transferred or figurative. Sad, dismal; also awful, fearful, deadly, cruel, wicked, etc. (Cf. uses of dark, gloomy.) poetic. Obsolete.
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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!
†3. Of an unhealthy, unwholesome colour; livid, leaden-hued. Applied esp. to wounds, to the human face discoloured by disease, and to corpses. Obsolete.
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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).
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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.
figurative.1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 6 Envy wan, and faded Care.1747 W. Collins Odes 47 With woful Measures wan Despair Low sullen Sounds his Grief beguil'd.1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. viii. 23 Why failed his thoughts to pierce the wan regret Of love within that look?
b. esp. in pale and wan (wan and pale).
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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).
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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.
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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.
†e. Of colour: ? Pale, light. Obsolete.
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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.
† wan-white adj. Obsolete
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.

Brit. /wɒn/, U.S. /wɑn/
Forms: Inflected wanned, wanning. Also Middle English wonne.
Etymology: Old English wannian, < wan adj.1
†1. intransitive. To become dark, discoloured, or livid.
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).

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