Wan

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Won. Chaucer.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.] Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Tennyson.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. "All his visage wanned." Shak. And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. Tennyson.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.