vasturet (vastur)

[ What can one drop of poyson harme the sea, Whose hugie vastures can digest the ill? Edward III . (quarto, 1596), D1 b. ( Nares .) vast us (vas'tus), n.; pl. vast i (-tī). [NL. (sc. musculus ): see vast .] One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh, the vast us extern us and intern us, a portion of the latter being also termed the cruræus . The two together are also known as the cruræus , in which case they are distinguished as extracruræus and intracruræus. The vast i, together with the rectus femoris, constitute the extensor muscle of the leg, called triceps (or quadriceps ) extensor cruris, and triceps femoral is . See cut under muscle1 . vasty (vas'ti), a. [ I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1. 52.