| Waste (waste) |
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| a. | (?) |
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| Waste |
| [OE. wast, OF.
wast, from L. vastus, influenced by the kindred German word;
cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w(?)sti, D.
woest, AS. w***emacr]ste. Cf. Vast.]
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence,
dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Lying unused; unproductive; worthless;
valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste
paper.
Lost for want of occupiers or use;
superfluous.
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To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to
destroy.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to
diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear
out.
To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ
prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless
purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by
scattering or injury.
To damage, impair, or injure, as an
estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to
decay.
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| Waste (waste) |
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| v. i. | (?) |
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| Waste |
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To
be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like,
gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
To procure or sustain a
reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race,
etc.
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The act of wasting, or the state of being
wasted] a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or
expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or
decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time,
labor, words, etc.
That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated,
uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or
unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
That which is of no value; worthless remnants;
refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the
working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery,
absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
Spoil, destruction, or injury, done
to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years,
to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or
remainder.
Old or abandoned workings,
whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
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Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the
land, carried by streams to the sea.
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