Word Meanings - SMARTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To waste away.
Related words: (words related to SMARTLE)
- 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. - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - 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 - 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 - 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. - 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. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - OVERWASTED
Wasted or worn out; Drayton. - FOREWASTE
See GASCOIGNE - 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.