Have you done your wassail! 'T is a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure
you.
Beau. & Fl.
Was"sail, a. Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial;
as, a wassail bowl. "Awassail candle, my lord, all tallow." Shak.
Wassail bowl, a bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the
table. "Spiced wassail bowl." J. Fletcher. "When the cloth was removed,
the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its appearance was
hailed with acclamation, being the wassail bowl so renowned in
Christmas festivity." W. Irving. — Wassail cup, a cup from which
wassail was drunk.
Was"sail, v. i. To hold a wassail; to carouse.
Spending all the day, and good part of the night, in dancing, caroling,
and wassailing.
Sir P. Sidney.
Was"sail*er (?), n. One who drinks wassail; one who engages in
festivity, especially in drinking; a reveler.
The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers.
Milton.
Wast (?). The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative
mood, imperfect tense; — now used only in solemn or poetical style. See
Was.
Wast"age (?), n. Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like;
waste.
Waste (?), a. [OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus, influenced by the
kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w&?;sti, D. woest,
AS. wste. Cf. Vast.]
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 the waste darkness
of futurity.
Sir W. Scott.
2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected;
as, waste land; waste paper.
But his waste words returned to him in vain.
Spenser.
Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground.
Milton.
Ill day which made this beauty waste.
Emerson.