<adj.all> the thumb is absent her appetite was lacking
inadequate in amount or degree
<adj.all> a deficient education deficient in common sense lacking in stamina tested and found wanting
Want \Want\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wanting}.] 1. To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
They that want honesty, want anything. --Beau. & Fl.
Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. --Milton.
The unhappy never want enemies. --Richardson.
2. To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
3. To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave. `` What wants my son?'' --Addison.
I want to speak to you about something. --A. Trollope.
Wanting \Want"ing\, a. Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.
On any tax legislation, Rep. Rostenkowski repeated his intention of wanting support from President Reagan first.
Banks are out there wanting to do business.' There are a number of reasons for the narrowing of margins.
Since then, the 4-foot Grunt and his girth have appeared in newspapers and on television, prompting about 300 calls from Californians wanting to give the 3-year-old porker a home.
"You have to be careful with companies wanting to get into businesses they don't know anything about."
"I had always talked about wanting to run broadcast properties on my own someday," said Mr. Eskridge, who had management experience in both radio and television in his nearly 20 years with NBC.
With the best schools, jobs and entertainment, Tokyo drew millions who dreamed of better lives as well as hundreds of companies wanting to be near government agencies, banks, financial markets and up-to-date information.
"You have gotten away with murder, and I don't blame you for wanting to continue it," Rep. Thomas Downey, D-N.Y., told a gathering of the American Sugar Alliance.
Nicholas Soames, junior agriculture minister, yesterday said sheep dogs were the victims of illegal, indiscriminate poisoning by some farmers wanting to kill predators.
But such arguments are dismissed by those wanting change. "Why should people here be less able to adopt democracy than elsewhere?" asks Abdulnabi Al Sho'ala, a prominent Bahraini businessman.
Illinois officials wanting to conduct warrantless searches of racetrack employees' on-grounds living quarters as one way of protecting the sport's integrity lost a Supreme Court appeal today.
Small U.S. investors wanting to trade directly in Tokyo have a tougher time.
Monday night, hard-line Housing Minister Ariel Sharon accused David Levy, the foreign minister, of wanting to negotiate with Palestinians who danced on rooftops when Scud missiles landed in Tel Aviv.
Many parents, concerned about disposables but not wanting to bother with cloth diapers, are using disposables made of plastic containing cornstarch or oils, which some researchers believe speeds disintegration of the outside cover.
Mr. Siegel's exact motives for wanting the report aren't clear.
Salomon Brothers' Mr. Pessin says his counterparts at other companies tell him horror stories about not wanting to do business with certain customers, but management saying, "We don't care, we'll take our chances."
"Anybody wanting to take us over will find we're stubbornly independent," asserts Ivan W. Gorr, Cooper's president.
The plan is to provide modest subsidies for groups wanting to tap into such a communications network, thus giving the private sector an incentive to accelerate plans for its construction.
A State Department task force has taken more than 11,000 calls from people wanting information about Americans stranded in Kuwait and Iraq, but word from the Middle East is reaching loved ones only in dribs and drabs.
"He said something about not wanting to overdraw the account here because we already know there are First Security banks all over hell," Bugden said.
"We had people coming into the store wanting to buy chips in six-figure quantities," Mr. Juge added.
As drama it may have been wanting, but his fellow filmmakers admired Bernardo Bertolucci's achievement in fulfilling such a difficult project with style and class.
Lower costs could underline the case for sending data over mobile radio and not over mobile data networks, Mr Barrett says. He notes that some mobile radio networks offer lower tariffs for users wanting to transmit data.
Since his suspension, Matt said he has received a couple of dozen letters, mostly from people urging him not to give in. He also received several calls from radio stations wanting to interview him.
But Lubbock City Secretary Ranette Boyd said her telephone was kept busy with calls from people wanting to know where they could vote.
The trick for investors will be in timing a switch should Lloyds' management show signs of wanting to diversify away from chemists shops and health foods.
One London-based private banker, pointing to stacks of telexes that cover his antique Sheraton desk, says he has never before seen so many people wanting accounts.
"You can't go nowhere without somebody wanting to beat you down or shoot you.
He predicted that London would be the base for US and Far Eastern companies wanting to expand in Europe, and his research told him that companies wanted to consolidate their operations under one roof in modern, prestigious offices.
A nonprofit sanctuary for unwanted pet primates near San Antonio, Texas, receives a half-dozen inquiries a week from people wanting to unload.
"All of this taken together, I think, can only send a very clear signal that the international community is united in wanting to see a reversal of this aggression," Baker said as he posed for pictures with Italian President Francesco Cossiga.