Wassailer () One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.

Wast () The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.

Wastage () Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

Waste () Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Waste () Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Waste () Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

Wasted () of Waste

Wasting () of Waste

Waste () To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

Waste () To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

Waste () 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.

Waste () To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

Waste () To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.

Waste () To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

Waste () 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.

Waste () 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.

Waste () 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.

Waste () 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.

Waste () Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Wastebasket () A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

Wasteboard () See Washboard, 3.

Wastebook () A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.

Wasteful () Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

Wasteful () Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.

Wasteful () Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.

Wastel () A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.

Wasteness () The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.

Wasteness () That which is waste; a desert; a waste.

Waster () One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.

Waster () An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.

Waster () A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.

Wastethrift () A spendthrift.

Wasteweir () An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

Wasting () Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.

Wastor () A waster; a thief.

Wastorel () See Wastrel.

Wastrel () Any waste thing or substance

Wastrel () Waste land or common land.

Wastrel () A profligate.

Wastrel () A neglected child; a street Arab.

Wastrel () Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.

Watch () The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.

Watch () One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.

Watch () The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

Watch () The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.

Watch () A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.

Watch () An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.

Watch () That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.

Watch () To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.

Watch () To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.

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