1.Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. "The dismal situation waste and wild." "His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity."
2.Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper. "But his waste words returned to him in vain." "Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground." "Ill day which made this beauty waste."
3.Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. "And strangled with her waste fertility."
Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifically: (a)(Steam Boilers) An escape pipe. See under Escape. (b)(Plumbing) The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl, tub, sink, or the like.
Waste steam. (a)Steam which escapes the air.
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