Definition of waste

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Waste (v.) 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..

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Wastrel :: Wastrel (n.) Waste land or common land.
Inexhaustible :: Inexhaustible (a.) Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words..
Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts..
Spiller :: Spill (v. i.) To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted..
Vast :: Vast (superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
Wasted :: Wasted (imp. & p. p.) of Wast.
Blotter :: Blotter (n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place..
Noils :: Noils (n. pl.) Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable..
Desolate :: Desolate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city..
Wasteness :: Wasteness (n.) That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
Wastel :: Wastel (n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake..
Approve :: Approve (v. t.) 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.
Miltwaste :: Miltwaste () A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.
Waste :: Waste (v.) 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..
Clung :: Clung (v. i.) Wasted away; shrunken.
Trashy :: Trashy (superl.) Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel..
Depredate :: Depredate (v. i.) To take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country..
Devastation :: Devastation (n.) The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste..
Swale :: Swale (v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v..
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