Word Meanings - FORWASTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To desolate or lay waste utterly. Spenser.

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• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• WASTEFUL
  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
• DESOLATER
  One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.
• WASTER
  1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters
• DESOLATENESS
  The state of being desolate.
• WASTEWEIR
  An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
• WASTEBOOK
  A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• WASTENESS
  1. The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation. A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zeph. i. 15. 2. That which is waste; a desert; a waste. Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought.
• WASTEBASKET
  A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
• DESOLATELY
  In a desolate manner.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• FORWASTE
  To desolate or lay waste utterly. Spenser.
• CANDLEWASTER
  One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. A bookworm, a candlewaster. B. Jonson.
• MILTWASTE
  A small European fern formerly used in medicine.