Definition of waste

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Waste (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse..

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Waster :: Waster (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal..
Fud :: Fud (n.) Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy..
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) 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..
Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc..
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow..
Squander :: Squander (v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc..
Pillage :: Pillage (v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy..
Tret :: Tret (n.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted..
Knubs :: Knubs (n. pl.) Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.
Tabefy :: Tabefy (v. t.) To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate..
Forspent :: Forspent (a.) Wasted in strength; tired; exhausted.
Absume :: Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.
Miltwaste :: Miltwaste () A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.
Harass :: Harass (n.) Devastation; waste.
Waste :: Waste (v.) 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..
Foreworn :: Foreworn (a.) Worn out; wasted; used up.
Repair :: Repair (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city..
Harry :: Harry (v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land..
Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..
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