WAST , past tense of the substantive verb, in the second person; as, thou wast
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Wast
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
1. Destroyed; ruined.
2. The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat.
4. Destitute; stripped; as lands laid waste
5. Superfluous; lost for want of occupiers.
6. --And strangled with her waste fertility.
7. Worthless; that which is rejected, or used only for mean purposes; as waste wood.
8. That of which no account is taken, or of which no value is found; as waste paper.
9. Uncultivated; untilled; unproductive.
10. There is yet much waste land in England.
11. Laid waste desolated; ruined.
1. The act of squandering; the dissipation of property through wantonness, ambition, extravagance, luxury or negligence.
2. For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood.
3. Consumption; loss; useless expense; any loss or destruction which is neither necessary nor promotive of a good end; a loss for which there is no equivalent; as a waste of goods or money; a waste of time; a waste of labor; a waste of words.
4. Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.
5. A desolate or uncultivated country. The plains of Arabia are mostly a wide waste
6. Land untilled, though capable of tillage; as the wastes in England.
7. Ground, space or place unoccupied; as the etherial waste
8. In the dead waste and middle of the night.
9. Region ruined and deserted.
11. Mischief; destruction.
12. He will never, I think, in the way of waste attempt us again.
13. In law, 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 is voluntary, as by pulling down buildings; or permissive, as by suffering them to fall for want of necessary repairs. Whatever does a lasting damage to the freehold, is a waste
1. To dwindle; to be diminished; to lose bulk or substance gradually; as, the body wastes in sickness.
2. The barrel of meal shall not waste 1 Kings 17:14 .
3. To be diminished or lost by slow dissipation, consumption or evaporation; as, water wastes by evaporation; fuel wastes in combustion.
4. To be consumed by time or mortality.
1. To diminish by gradual dissipation or loss. Thus disease wastes the patient; sorrows waste the strength and spirits.
2. To cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or by injury. Thus cattle waste their fodder when fed in the open field.
3. To expend without necessity or use; to destroy wantonly or luxuriously; to squander; to cause to be lost through wantonness or negligence. Careless people waste their fuel, their food or their property. Children waster their inheritance.
4. And wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke 15:13 .
6. To suffer to be lost unnecessarily; or to throw away; as, to waste the blood and treasure of a nation.
7. To destroy by violence.
8. The Tyber insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
9. To impair strength gradually.
10. Now wasting years my former strength confounds.
11. To lose in idleness or misery; to wear out.
12. Here condemnd to waste eternal days in woe and pain.
14. O were I able to waste it all myself, and leave you none.
15. In law, to damage, impair or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc. To go to decay. See the Noun.
16. To exhaust; to be consumed by time or mortality.
17. Till your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. Numbers 14:33 .
18. To scatter and lose for want of use or of occupiers.
19. Full many a flowr is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
5. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
6. 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.
7. To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.
1. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
Waste
Encyclopedia Britannica
WASTE (Vastum) is used in law in several senses, of which four are the most important. (1) Waste of a manor is that part of a manor subject to rights of common, as distinguished from the lord’s demesne (see Commons, Manor). (2) Year, day, and waste was a part of the royal prerogative, acknowledged by the statute De Praerogativa Regis. The king had the profits of freehold lands of those attainted of felony and petit treason and of fugitives for a year and a day with a right of committing waste in sense (3) thereon. After the expiration of a year and a day the lands returned to the lord of the fee. Attainder for felony being now abolished, the right has ceased to exist (see Felony Treason). (3) The most usual signification of the word is “any unauthorized act of a tenant for a freehold estate, not of inheritance or for any lesser interest, which tends to the destruction of the tenement, or otherwise to the injury of the inheritance” (Pollock, Law of Torts, p. 285). Waste is either voluntary or permissive. Voluntary waste is by act of commission, as by pulling down a house, cutting down trees, opening new quarries or mines (though not continuing the working of existing ones), or doing anything which may destroy evidence, such as conversion of arable into meadow land. Permissive waste is by act of omission, such as allowing buildings to fall out of repair. A fermor, by the Statute of Marlbridge, 52 Hen. III. c. 23, may not commit waste without licence in writing from the reversioner. The same statute mentions a form of waste which has long become extinct, viz., exile (exilium), or the impoverishment of villeins or tenants at will on an estate. In case a tenant for life or for any smaller interest holds (as is often the case by the terms of a will or settlement) ...without impeachment of waste, his rights are considerably greater, and he may use the profits salva rerum substantia (to use the language of Roman law). For instance, he may cut timber in a husband-like manner and open mines, but he may not commit what is called equitable waste, that is, pull down or deface the mansion or destroy ornamental timber. Acts of equitable waste were, before 1875, not cognizable in courts of common law, but it is now provided by the Judicature Act, 1873, § 25 (3), that in the absence of special provision to that effect an estate for life without impeachment of waste shall not confer upon the tenant for life any legal right to commit equitable waste. Removal of fixtures, which would be prima facie waste, is recognized by the law to a limited extent (see Fixtures). A copyholder may not commit waste unless allowed by the custom of the manor (see Copyhold). Various remedies for waste have been given to the reversioner at different periods of law. At common law only single damages seem to have been recoverable. This was altered by the legislature, and for some centuries waste was a criminal or quasi-criminal offence. Magna Charta enacted that a guardian committing waste of the lands in his custody should make amends and lose his office. The Statute of Marlbridge made a fermor committing waste liable to grievous amerciament as well as to damages, and followed Magna Charta in forbidding waste by a guardian. The Statute of Gloucester, 6 Edw. I. c. 5, enacted that a writ of waste might be granted against a tenant for life or years or in courtesy or dower, and on being attainted of waste the tenant was to forfeit the land wasted and to pay thrice the amount of the waste. In addition to the writ of waste the writ of estrepement (said to be a corruption of exstirpamentum) lay to prevent injury to an estate to which the title was disputed. Numerous other acts dealt with remedies for waste. The writ of waste was superseded at common law by the mixed action of waste, itself abolished by 3 and 4 Will. IV. c. 27, and the action of trespass on the case (see Tort, Trespass). The Court of Chancery also established a jurisdiction by suit or injunction, especially to restrain equitable waste. At present proceedings may be taken either by action for damages, or by application for an injunction, or by both combined, and either in the Queen’s Bench or Chancery Division. By the Judicature Act, 1873, § 25 (8), the old jurisdiction to grant injunctions to prevent threatened waste is considerably enlarged. The rules of the Supreme Court, 1883, Ord. xvi. r. 37, enable a representative action to be brought for the prevention of waste. In order to obtain damages or an injunction, substantial injury or danger of it must be proved. In England only the High Court (unless by agreement of the parties) has jurisdiction in questions of waste, but in Ireland the civil bill courts and courts of summary jurisdiction have co-ordinate authority to a limited extent. The law of waste as it affects ecclesiastical benefices will be found under Dilapidations. (4) Waste of assets or devastavit is a squandering and misapplication of the estate and effects of a deceased person by his executors or administrators, for which they are answerable out of their own pockets as far as they have or might have had assets of the deceased. The legal liability of the representatives of the deceased is recognized by 30 Car. II. c. 7 and 4 W. and M. c. 24.
In Scots law waste is not used as a technical term, but the respective rights of fiar and liferenter are much the same as in England. The latter, however, has not the right of continuing the working of existing mines unless the deed specially confers it upon him. Interdicts have in strong cases been granted against the sale of ornamental timber.
In the United States, especially in the western States, many acts, such as the felling of timber, are not considered waste which would be waste in England. In some States waste is a cause of forfeiture; in some it gives a right to treble damages. The writ of estrepement is still in use.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 393
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A gate to let the water of a pond pass off when it is not wanted.
An overfall or wier for the superfluous water of a canal.
A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
See Washboard, 3.
A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
1. Expended without necessity or use; lost through negligence; squandered.
2. Diminished; dissipated; evaporated; exhausted.
3. Desolated; ruined; destroyed.
1. Lavish; prodigal; expending property, or that which is valuable, without necessity or use; applied to persons.
2. Destructive to property; ruinous; as wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
3. Desolate; unoccupied; untilled; uncultivated.
4. In wilderness and wasteful deserts strayd.
1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
2. 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.
3. Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.
1. In a lavish manner; with prodigality; in useless expenses or consumption.
Lavishness; prodigality; the act or practice of expending what is valuable without necessity or use.
2. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness Zephaniah 1:15 .
1. The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
2. That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
1. One who is prodigal; one who squanders property; one who consumes extravagantly or without use.
2. He also that is slothful in his work, is brother to him who is a great waster Proverbs 18:9 .
3. Sconces are great wasters of candles.
4. A kind of cudgel.
1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
A spendthrift.
A spendthrift.
An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
Diminishing by dissipation or by great destruction; as a wasting disease.
1. Lavishing prodigally; expending or consuming without use; diminishing by slow dissipation; desolating; laying waste.
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
WASTREL, WASTOREL noun Waste substances; any thing cast away as bad. [Local.]
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180 KJV and 87 BSB verses contain “wast” — showing the first 20. Show all 243 verses (searchable)
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.
And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.