Wish

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Desire; eager desire; longing.

II. Wish ·noun A thing desired; an object of desire.

III. Wish ·noun Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.

IV. Wish ·vt To Recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.

V. Wish ·vt To have a desire or yearning; to Long; to Hanker.

VI. Wish ·vt To Desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.

VII. Wish ·vt 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.