wanyt

A Middle English form of wane2. Same as waniand. Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 36. wanyandt, n. Shall a beardle boy, 2. A lewd person; a lascivious man or wo man. If ye be set on pleasure, or disposed to wantons , ye shall have ministers enough to be furtherers and instruments of it. Latimer , 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. wanton (won'ton), v . [ When, like some childish wench, she loosely wantoning With tricks and giddy turns seems to inisle the shore. Drayton, Polyolbion, ii. 174. Nature here Wanton'd as in her prime. Milton , P. L., v. 294. Her cap-strings wantoned in front of her in the rising wind. Mrs. Oliphant , May, iii. 2. To sport or dally in lewdne ; sport lasciviously.