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measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid.

Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted. M'Culloch.

To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. "We trifle time." Shak.

To idle away; to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. Ford.

Not spilt or wasted; not shed.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a system of organs which eliminate nitrogenous waste matter from the blood of certain invertebrates.

Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.

A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

See Wastel. [Obs.] Fuller.

The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.

Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into the aëriform state; subject to evaporation.

sdiction. (Eng. Eccl. Law) See Contentious jurisdiction, under Contentious. -- Voluntary waste. (Law) See Waste, n., 4.

out a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste." Milton.

To cause to become wanton; also, to waste in wantonness. [Obs.]

of any other person not entering by his permission. Spelman. They wend both warren and in waste. Piers Plowman.

To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.

ard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di

n; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. Tennyson. Weald clay (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden.

To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.