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A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.

Wasted or worn out; [Obs.] Drayton.

e designs, as Greek fret or meander, are derived from or closely associated with it. The swastika is found in remains from the Bronze Age in various parts of Europe, esp. at Hissarlik (Troy), and was in frequent use as late as the 10th century. It is found in ancient Persia, in India, where both Jains and Buddhists use…

Wearing away; superficial waste. Tyndall.

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

To consume gradually; to waste away. [Obs.] Boyle.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

llowing lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. "An arid waste." Thomson.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

n to affect; to begin to act upon, injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste. On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever. Macaulay. Hydrofluoric acid . . . attacks the glass. B. Stewart.

To waste by little and little; to fritter away. [Obs.]

To waste away. [Obs.] Shak.

Lifetime; mortal existence. [Obs.] Claudius, thou Wast follower of his fortunes in his being. Webster (1654).

To plunder; to waste in riot. [Obs.]

f tossing in a blanket. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow.

cular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.