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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Colliquative :: Colliquative (a.) Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, colliquative sweats..
Consumable :: Consumable (a.) Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent..
Moor :: Moor (n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath..
Drill :: Drill (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
Haggard :: Haggard (a.) Having the expression of one wasted by want or suffering; hollow-eyed; having the features distorted or wasted, or anxious in appearance; as, haggard features, eyes..
Confound :: Confound (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; to waste.
Insulite :: Insulite (n.) An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc..
Preyer :: Preyer (n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer..
Harry :: Harry (v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
Draughthouse :: Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
Spendthrift :: Spendthrift (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful.
Wasteness :: Wasteness (n.) The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.
Devastate :: Devastate (v. t.) To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
Waste :: Waste (v.) 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..
Economical :: Economical (a.) Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
Washboard :: Washboard (n.) A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard..
Forpine :: Forpine (v. t.) To waste away completely by suffering or torment.
Draffy :: Draffy (a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless.
Quiddler :: Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.
Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..
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