Wan: Definition and part of speech

Wan

  1. v. i. To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
  2. imp. Won.
  3. a. Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
  4. n. The quality of being wan; wanness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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