Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Wan

means thin. (Anglo-Saxon, wan, “deficient”; our wane, as the “waning moon.”) As wasting of the flesh is generally accompanied with a grey pallor, the idea of leanness has yielded to that of the sickly hue which attends it. (Verb wan-ian, to wane.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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