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Wassail
n.
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An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one.
Wassail
n.
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An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
Wassail
n.
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The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool.
Wassail
n.
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A festive or drinking song or glee.
Wassail
a.
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Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl.
Wassail
v. i.
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To hold a wassail; to carouse.
Wassailer
n.
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One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.
Wast
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The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
Wastage
n.
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Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
Waste
a.
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Waste
a.
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Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
Waste
a.
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Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
Wasted
imp. & p. p.
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of Waste
Wasting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Waste
Waste
a.
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To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
Waste
a.
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To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Waste
a.
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To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
Waste
a.
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To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
Waste
v. i.
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To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
Waste
v. i.
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To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
Waste
v.
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The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
Waste
v.
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That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
Waste
v.
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That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
Waste
v.
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Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
Waste
v.
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Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
Wastebasket
n.
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A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
Wasteboard
n.
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See Washboard, 3.
Wastebook
n.
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A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
Wasteful
a.
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Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Wasteful
a.
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Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.