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WA'STEFUL, adj. Destructive; ruinous. 
The folly of man 
Let in these -wasteful furies. Milton. 
Wantonly or dissolutely consumptive. 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper light 
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. 
In -wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shakspeare. 
Lavish; prodigal; luxuriantly liberal. 
How has kind heav’n adorn’d the happy land, 
And scatter’d blessings with a wasteful hand! Addison. 
Desolate ; uncultivated; unoccupied. 
In wilderness and -wasteful desarts stray’d, 
To seek her knight. Spenser. 
Outrageous as a sea, dark, -wasteful , wild. Milton. 
WA'STEFULLY, adv. With vain and dissolute con¬ 
sumption.—Never any man would think our labour mis¬ 
spent, or the time -wastefulIp consumed. Hooker. 
WA'STEFULNESS, s. Prodigality. 
WA'STEL, s. [wastellus, low Lat.; gasteau, Fr.] A 
particular sort of bread ; fine bread; a cake. Obsolete .— 
Wastel-hrezA was a better sort of bread. Lowt/i. 
WA'STENESS, s. Desolation; solitude. 
She, of nought afraid, 
Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought. 
Spenser. 
WA’STER, s. One that consumes dissolutely and extra¬ 
vagantly ; a squanderer; vain consumer. 
Divers Roman knights, 
The profuse wasters of their patrimonies. 
So threaten’d with their debts, as they will now 
Run any desperate fortune. B „ Jonson. 
A kind of cudgel.—Thou wouldst be loth to play half a 
dozen of venies at wasters. Beaum. and FI. 
WA'STETHRIFT, s. A spendthrift.—Thou art a waste- 
thrift, and art run away from thy master. Beaum. and FI. 
WA'STREL, s. Their works, both stream and load, lie 
in several, or in wastrell, that is, in inclosed grounds, or in 
commons. Carcw. 
WASUNGEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Saxe-Meinungen, on the Werra; 6 miles north of Meinun- 
gen. Population 1500. 
WASZILKOW, a town of European Russia; 5 miles 
north of Bialystock. f 
WATAGUAKI, a river of Labrador, which runs into the 
gulf of St. Lawrence. Lat. 50. 12. N. long. 60. 5. W. 
WATAGUAKI ISLES, a cluster of small islands in the 
gulf of St. Lawrence, near the coast of Labrador. 
WATAUGA, a river which rises in North Carolina, and 
runs into the Holston, in Tennessee. 
WATAUPAUMENE, or St Peter, a river of North 
America, which runs into the Mississippi. Lat. 44. 42. N. 
long. 93. 38. W. 
WATCH, s. [paecce, Sax.] Forbearance of sleep; attend¬ 
ance without sleep. 
All the long night their mournful watch they keep, 
And all the day stand round the tomb and weep. Addison. 
Attention; close observation. 
In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, 
I shot his fellow, of the self-same flight. 
The self-same way, with more advised watch. 
To find the other forth; by vent’ring both, 
I oft found both. Shakspeare. 
Guard; vigilant keep. 
Hie thee to thy charge; 
Use careful watch, chuse trusty centinels. Shakspeare. 
Watchman ; men set to guard. It is used in a collective 
sense. 
Such stand in narrow lanes, 
And beat our watch, and rob our passengers. Shakspeare. 
Place where a guard is set. 
He upbraids Iago, that he made him 
Brave me upon the watch. Shakspeare* 
Post or office of a watchman. 
As I did stand my watch upon the hill, 
I look’d toward Birnam, and anon methought 
The wood began to move. Shakspeare. 
A period of the night. 
Your fair daughter, 
At this odd, even, and dull watch o’ the night. 
Is now transported with a gondolier. 
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor. Shakspeare. 
A pocket clock; a small clock moved by a spring. 
That Cloe may be serv’d in state. 
The hours must at her toilet wait; 
Whilst all the reasoning fools below 
Wonder their watches go so slow. Prior. 
To WATCH, v. n. [pacian, Saxon.] Not to sleep; to 
wake.—I have two nights watch'd with you; but can per¬ 
ceive no truth in your report. Shakspeare. —To keep guard. 
—He gave signal to the minister that watch'd. Milton .— 
To look with expectation.—My soul waiteth for the Lord, 
more than they that watch for the morning. Ps. —To be 
attentive ; to be vigilant. —Watch thou in all things, endure 
afflictions. 2 Tim. —To be cautiously observant.— Watch 
over thyself, counsel thyself, judge thyself impartially. Bp. 
Taylor. —To be insidiously attentive. 
He somewhere nigh at hand 
Watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find 
His wish and best advantage, us asunder. 
Hopeless to circumvent us join’d. Milton. 
To WATCH, v. a. To guard; to have in keep.—Flam¬ 
ing ministers watch and tend their charge. Milton. —To 
observe in ambush. — Saul sent messengers unto David’s 
house to watch him, and to slay him. 1 Sam. 
They under rocks their food 
In jointed armour watch. Milton. 
To tend.—Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida. 
Broome. —To observe in order to detect or prevent. 
W ATCH POINT, a cape on the east coast of Rhode Island. 
Lat. 41. 13. N. long. 71. 50. W. 
WA'TCIIER, s. One who sits up; one who does not 
go to sleep. 
Get on your night-gown, lest occasion call us, 
And shew us to be watchers. Shakspeare. 
Diligent overlooker or observer. 
Love hath chac’d sleep from my enthralled eyes, 
And made them watchers of mine own heart’s sorrow. 
Shakspeare. 
WATCHER, North, or Seven Islands, a cluster of 
small islands in the straits of Macassar, near the west coast of 
Celebes. Lat. 0. 27. S. long. 119. 33. E. 
WATCHER, South, a small island in the straits of Ma¬ 
cassar, near the west coast of Celebes. Lat. 0. 3. S. long. 
119. 24. E. 
WA'TCHET, adj. [pseceb, Saxon, weak. Skinner .] 
Blue; pale blue.—The mariners all appeared in watchet or 
sky-coloured cloth. Milton. 
WATCHET, a market town and seaport of England, in 
the county of Somerset, situated on the Bristol channel. The 
inhabitants gather abundance of the lichen marinus, or 
sea liverwort, on the rocky coast and cliffs, at low water, 
which they send to distant parts of the country. Market on 
Saturday and one annual fair; 14 miles north-north west of 
Bridgewater, and 153 west-by-south of London. Population 
1659. 
WATCHFIELD, a hamlet of England, in Berkshire, 
near Great Farringdon. 
WA'TCHFUL, adj. Vigilant; attentive; cautious; 
nicely observant. It has n/"before the thing to be regulated, 
and against before the thing to be avoided. 
