Verb

(en verb)

To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.

*

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*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington

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To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.

(obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.

To strain; make tense.

(obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.

*, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.139:

Dotage, fatuity, or follyis for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].

To apply with energy.

To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.

To design mechanically or artistically; ; mold.

To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

Verb

(en verb)

To wish for or to desire (something).

* , chapter=13

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

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* Dryden

The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting' or imperfect, so much ' wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.

To lack, not to have (something).

*, II.3.7:

he that hath skill to be a pilot wants' a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth' wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.

* James Merrick

Not what we wish, but what we want , / Oh, let thy grace supply!

* Addison

I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.

(colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2

The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.

(dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

* Ben Jonson

You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want .

* Alexander Pope

For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.