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▪ I. † ˈwasty, a.1 and n. Obs.
Forms: 3 wasti, 4 wasty, 6 vaistie, waisty, wastie.
[Altered form (after waste a.) of ME. westy a.]
A. adj.
1. Desolate, desert.
c1230Hali Meid. 43 (Titus MS.) And hwat ȝif ha beoð þe wone, þat tu..schalt greni godles inwið wasti wahes [Bodley MS. westi wahes]. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xx. (Blasius) 37, & þare in-to [a] wasty stede heremytis lyf wel lang he lede. 15..A. Hume Ep. G. Moncrieff Poems (S.T.S.) 61 Of barran Syrt, and wastie Scythia.
b. Phr. wasty wanes, wasty wones, a desolate place of habitation; also, a spacious place.
c1400Sc. Trojan War ii. 2444 It was a fair rowme wasty wones. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 18 First of all in dance wes Pryd, with bair wyld bak and bonet on syd, Lyk to mak vaistie wanis. 1513Douglas æneis xii. viii. 6 Alhaill the barnage flokkis furth atanis, Left voyd the tovn and strenth with waisty wanis.
2. Extravagant in upkeep.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 129 Þei han many grete houses, costlewe & wasty.
B. n. A desert place.
c1325Metr. Hom. 148 An ermyt..That woned in wasti bi him an.
▪ II. wasty, a.2|ˈweɪstɪ|
[f. waste n. + -y.]
1. Liable to waste from deterioration.
1904Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 7/2 Pineapples from the Azores are ‘wasty’, and sell from 6d. to 3s. 6d. each, but they are not of good quality. 1905Ibid. 6 July 12/1 The rain has ruined 50 per cent of the strawberries on the plants... Tons of soft wasty berries have been marketed and sold at any price obtainable.
2. U.S. ‘Resembling cotton-waste’ (Cent. Dict.).
1886U.S. Consular Reports No. lxii. 470 (Cent.) The wool becomes impoverished on account of the heat and dust, and is very tender, with a dry, wasty top. 1888Ibid. 389 The wools..are..dry and wasty. |