will

fe’l verb

1. (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something). Do what you will.
2. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation. I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.
3. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
4. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). All the fans were willing their team to win the game.

ot noun

1. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
2. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
3. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. Most creatures have a will to live.
4. Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.