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The body of vassals. [R.]

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.

Vastness; immensity. [Obs.] "All the world's vastidity." Shak.

Vastness; immense extent. [R.]

Vastness. [Obs.] The huge vastity of the world. Holland.

To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely. Jer. Taylor.

The quality or state of being vast.

Vast; immense. [R.] I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Shak.

A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.

Cease; stop; stay. "Avast heaving." Totten.

hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. Tennyson.

A Species of duck (Aythya vallisneria), esteemed for the delicacy of its flesh. It visits the United States in autumn; particularly Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.

To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with all possible diligence. Woodward.

One who canvasses.

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

To devastate. [Obs.] Bolingbroke.

To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay.

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste. Even now the devastation is begun, And half the business of destruction done. Goldsmith.