Wish

Definition of Wish

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Wished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wishing.]
	1.	To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker. They cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. - Acts xxvii. 29. This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for. - Arbuthnot.
v. t.	1.	To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward. I would not wish Any companion in the world but you. - Shak. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. - 3. John 2.
	2.	To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate. I would not wish them to a fairer death. - Shak. I wish it may not prove some ominous foretoken of misfortune to have met with such a miser as I am. - Sir P. Sidney. Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil. - Ps. xl. 14.
	3.	To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of. I would be glad to thrive, sir, And I was wished to your worship by a gentleman. - B. Jonson.
n.	1.	Desire; eager desire; longing. Behold, I am according to thy wish in God a stead. - Job xxxiii. 6.
	2.	Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation. Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish. - Shak.
	3.	A thing desired; an object of desire. Will he, wise, let loose at once his ire . . . To give his enemies their wish! - Milton.

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