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- English Word Wassail Definition Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
- English Word Wassail Definition To hold a wassail; to carouse.
- English Word Wassailer Definition One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.
- English Word Wast Definition The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
- English Word Wastage Definition Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
- English Word Waste Definition Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
- English Word Waste Definition Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
- English Word Waste Definition Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
- English Word Waste Definition To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
- English Word Waste Definition To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- English Word Waste Definition 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.
- English Word Waste Definition To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
- English Word Waste Definition To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
- English Word Waste Definition To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
- English Word Waste Definition 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.
- English Word Waste Definition 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.
- English Word Waste Definition 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.
- English Word Waste Definition 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.
- English Word Waste Definition Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
- English Word Wastebasket Definition A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.