1. To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be
sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; — often used impersonally
with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.
The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where
any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in
the imitation of human life.
Dryden.