verb • (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
• (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
• (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
• (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.
• (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
• (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
• (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
• To wish, desire.
• To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
• To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
• To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
