noun.
A wan tint or complexion; paleness.
noun.
The German name, sometimes used in English, of the dyestuff weld (not woad).
Dark; black; gloomy: applied to the weather, to water, streams, pools, etc.
Colorless; pallid; pale; sickly of hue.
Sorrowful; sad.
Frightful; awful; great.
Synonyms Pallid, etc. (see pale), ashy, cadaverous.
A prefix of Anglo-Saxon origin, frequent in Middle English, meaning ‘wanting, deficient, lacking,’ and used as a negative, like un-, with which it often inter changed.
To render wan.
To grow or become wan.
An old preterit, of win.