wante

wante (plural wantes)

1. Obsolete spelling of want
   • 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II‎:

     But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke.

wante (third-person singular simple present wantes or wanteth, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted)

1. Obsolete spelling of want
   • 1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete‎:

     I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass.

   • 1890, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1‎:

     We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers.

• Tewan, awent

From Dutch want in the meaning of "mitten".

wante

1. glove