a. Obs. Also 6 wannye, wannie. [f. WAN a. + -Y1.] Wan, pallid.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 311. With flatte visagies, pale and wannye coloure.
1566. Studley, Medea, IV. (1581), 136 b. In faynting Face, with pale and wanny whyght The sanguyne hewe exyled thence is fled.
1594. Willobie, Avisa, xvi. (1880), 48. Your wannie cheekes, your shaggie lockes.
1602. Munday, Palmerin, I. xvii. (1639), F 3 b. A pale and wanny face.