wandering (wondering)

[ IMG:content-2043.png:[blocks in formation] wonia = OHG. wanōn, wanen = Icel. van a, decrease, wane; from the adj., AS. wan = OHG. wan = Icel. vanr = Goth. wans, wanting, denegative ficient (an adj. also appearing as a ne prefix: see wan- ), = Skt. una, lacking, deficient, inferior; perhaps an orig. pp. of a root u, be empty, Zend v ✔u, be lacking, existing also in Gr. εύνις, bereaved, G. öde, desolate, etc. Cf. want, want1. Hence prob. waniand, wanion.] I. in trans. 1. To decrease; be diminished: applied particularly to the periodical le ening of the illuminated part of the moon: opposed to wax. Under net he hir feet she hadde a mone, Wexing it was, and sholde wanie sone. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1220. How slow Barefoot went Upon their ten toes in wild wander ment. Bp. Hall, Satires, II. iii. 20. wanderoo (won-de-rö'), n. [Also wanderow, wanderu; = F. ouanderou (Buffon), Wanderoo ( Macacus silenus). color. Notwithstanding the name, the wanderoo is not found in Ceylon, where that native name applies more properly to species of Semnopithecus, as the great wanderoo or maha, S. ursinus. The misapplication originated with Buffon. Also called Malabar monkey, lion tailed monkey, baboon, or macaque, neel - chunder, silenus, and by other names. Hall i well . [Prov.