wastel (wast)

[Formerly also wast; So wide a forest and so waste as this, Nor famous Ardeyn, nor fowle Arlo, is. Spenser, Astrophel, 1. 95. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howl- ing wilderne . Deut. xxxii. 10. Far in the waste Soudan. Tennyson, Epitaph on General Gordon. waste or cannot readily be utilized for the purpose for which it was intended; overplus, usele , or rejected material; refuse, as the overflow water from a dam or reservoir, broken or spoiled castings in a foundry, paper scraps in a printing-office or bindery, or shreds of yarn in a cotton or woolen-mill. What is called in typographical language the waste of works printed at the Academy is seldom or never preserved, as it ought to be. Rev. W. Tooke (Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 430). "I don't know how it is, sir," said one waste collector, "I can't make it out, but paper gets scarcer or else I'm out of luck. Just at this time my family and me really couldn't live on my waste if we had to depend entirely upon it." Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 11. 2. In a state of desolation and decay; ruined; 7. Rubbish; trash; nonsense. ruinous; blank; cheerle ; dismal; dreary. Certayne old wast and broken howeses. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. cclxix. I will make thee [Jerusalem] waste , and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee. 3. Unused; untilled; unproductive. It had layne wast two hundred yeares. Ezek. v. 14. Coryat, Crudities, I. 159. Almost one-fourth of the cultivable land of a country which was held to be over-populated was lying waste . W. S. Gregg, Irish Hist. for Eng. Readers, p. 145. 4. Rejected as unfit for use, or spoiled in the using; refuse; hence, of little or no value; usele : as, waste paper; waste materials.51. Idle; empty; vain; of no value or sign if i cance. Where is oure semely sone? I trowe oure wittis be waste as wynde. York Plays , p. 157. He hath maad mi covenant wast . Wyclif , Gen. xvii. 14. His waste wordes retournd to him in vaine. Why fader, in faith, are yo so fer troublet At his wordys of waste , & his wit febill? Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2546. 8. A weir or sluice for carrying off the overflow from a dam, reservoir, or canal.-9. A waste-pipe, or any contrivance for allowing waste matter or surplus water, steam, etc., to escape. If more than one basin is fixed upon the same waste , the size should be proportionately increased. S. S. Hellyer , The Plumber, p. 47. 10. Unnece ary or usele expenditure: as, waste of time, labor, or money. So to order and dispende the same that no waste or vnprofitable exce e be made. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 227. Prefaces, and pa ages, and excusations, and other speeches of reference to the person, are great wastes of time. Bacon, Dispatch (ed. 1887). 11. A superfluity. We'll girt them with an ample waste of love. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., i. 1. 12. In law , anything suffered by a tenant in 6. Exuberant; over-abundant; hence, super the nature of permanent injury to the in her i flu ous; usele . Spenser, F. Q., I. 1. 42. Strangled with her waste fertility. Milton , Comus, 1. 729. 71. Wasteful; prodigal; profuse. My waast expensis y wole with-drawe; Now, cert is, waast weel callid the i be, For the i were spent my boost to blowe, My name to bere bot he on londe & see. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 179. To lay waste. See layl . Waste-steam pipe, in a steam-engine, a pipe for conveying away the steam that escapes through the safety-valve.