Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WASTE, a.

1. Destroyed; ruined. The Sophi leaves all waste in his retreat. – Milton.
2. Desolate; uncultivated; as, a waste country; a waste, howling wilderness. Deut. xxxii.
3. Destitute; stripped; as, lands laid waste.
4. Superfluous; lost for want of occupiers. And strangled with her waste fertility. – Milton.
5. Worthless; that which is rejected, or used only for mean purposes; as, waste wood.
6. That of which no account is taken, or of which no value is found; as, waste paper.
7. Uncultivated; untitled; unproductive. There is yet much waste land in England. – Cyc. Laid waste, desolated; ruined.