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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.

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

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.

One who, or that which, devastates. Emerson.

Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. Bouvier.

Devastated; laid waste. [Obs.]

Of the color of the olive; tawny. Sir T. Herbert.

An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast abrupt." Milton.

Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. The abysses of metaphysical theology. Macaulay. In unfathomable abysses of disgrace. Burke.

give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.