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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.

To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

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.

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

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.

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.

aits of character. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. That April morn Of this the very brother. Wordsworth.

ced being said to be burned. -- To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. -- To burn one's fingers, to get one's self into unexpected trouble, as by interfering the concerns of others, speculation, etc. -- To burn out, to destroy or obliterate by burni…

To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.] Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding. Bacom.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

to reject as useless or inconvenient. -- To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and sunk." Shak. -- To cast by, to reject; to dismiss or discard; to throw away.…

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

f the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.…

Wasted away; shrunken. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five [years] must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.