In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.
Spenser.
Syn. — Lavish; profuse; prodigal; extravagant.
— Waste"ful*ly, adv. — Waste"ful*ness, n.
Was"tel (?), n. [OF. wastel, gastel, F. gâteau, LL. wastellus, fr. MHG.
wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS. wist food.] A kind of white and
fine bread or cake; — called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.]
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.
Waste"ness (?), n. 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.