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ight. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.

sally. Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. Milton. They would make excursions and waste the country. Holland.

To drive away from one's country; to banish. Forewasted all their land, and them expelled. Spenser. . He shell expel them from before you . . . and ye shell possess their land. Josh. xxiii. 5.

Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. "Extravagant expense." Bancroft.

To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.

oth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. Shak. Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. Byron.

asts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.

Foolish expenditure; waste. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. Burrill.

Worn out; wasted; used up. [Archaic] Old foreworn stories almost forgotten. Brydges.

To waste away completely by suffering or torment. [Archaic] "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer.

To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted. [Archaic] A gentleman almost forspent with speed. Shak.

o diminish; to pare off; to reduce to nothing by taking away a little at a time; also, to waste piecemeal; as, to fritter away time, strength, credit, etc.

Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportio…

Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

ormerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission…

To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace them with props. Ure.