And strangled with her waste fertility.
Milton.
Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or
the like, is discharged. — Waste paper. See under Paper. — 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. (b) Exhaust
steam. — Waste trap, a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink.
Waste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wasting.] [OE.
wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. gâter to spoil, L. vastare to
devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, desert, uncultivated,
ravaged, vast, but influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG.
wuosten, G. wüsten, AS. wstan. See Waste, a.]