Sentence:  Oh Jeanie, it will be hard, after every thing is ready for our happiness, if we should be sundered. It <WSD>wants</WSD> but a few days o&#39; Martinmas, and then I maun enter on my new service on Loch Rannoch, where a bonny shieling is ready ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). (from 15th c.)