and in diameter less than a pipestem, drilled . . . so as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a
white color, rated at half the value of the black or violet, passed each as the equivalent of a farthing in
transactions between the natives and the planters." Palfrey.
Wan
(Wan) obs. imp. of Win. Won. Chaucer.
Wan
(Wan) a. [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from
winnan to labor, strive. See Win.] 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. The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.]
Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.
Tennyson. Wan
(Wan) v. i. 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. Wand
(Wand) n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vöndr, akin to Dan. vaand, Goth. wandus; perhaps originally,
a pliant twig, and akin to E. wind to turn.]
1. A small stick; a rod; a verge.
With good smart blows of a wand on his back.
Locke. 2. Specifically: (a) A staff of authority.
Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty than instruments of
punishment.
Sir P. Sidney. (b) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Picus bore a buckler in his hand;
His other waved a long divining wand.
Dryden. Wand of peace (Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks
when deforced as a symbol of the deforcement, and protest for remedy of law. Burrill.
Wander
(Wan"der) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wandered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wandering.] [OE. wandren, wandrien,
AS. wandrian; akin to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind to turn.]
1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to
stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
Heb. xi. 37.
He wandereth abroad for bread.
Job xv. 23.
