wanty (2)

[Cf. Dutch want =cordage, tackling.] A leather tie or rope; a broad girth of leather by which the load is bound upon the back of a beast. ( Prov.) "A pannell and wanty , pack saddle, and ped." Tu er: Husbandry Furniture, p. 11. *wanze, v . i . [A. S. wansian , from wanian =to wane (q. v.).] To wane, to waste, to wither. "Many bewrayed themselves to be time-servers, and wanzed away to nothing, as fast as ever they seemed to come forward."-Rogers: Naaman the Syrian.