Crossword clues for wast
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wast \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.
Wiktionary
vb. (context archaic English) (second-person singular past of be English)
Wikipedia
WAST may refer to:
- Western Australia Standard Time
- WAST-LP, a defunct low-power television station in Ashland, Wisconsin
- WNYT (TV), a television station (channel 13 analog/12 digital) licensed to Albany, New York, United States, which used the call sign WAST until September 1981
- West Africa Summer Time, a time zone used in Namibia
- Wast Water, a lake in Cumbria, England
- wast, a past-tense form of to be formerly used with the pronoun thou
WAST (1600 AM) – was a commercial daytime-only radio station licensed to Ashtabula, Ohio, serving parts of Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania. The station went dark on October 1, 1982.
Usage examples of "wast".
And, Marzio, because thou wast only awed By that which made me tremble, wear thou this!
When thou wast a babe I dandled thee upon my knees, now shall my old arm strike for thee and freedom.
Zululand, and among the white people of Natal, did not thine heart turn to the land thy mother told thee of, thy native place, where thou didst see the light, and play when thou wast little, the land where thy place was?
Again, when the solids of the body have been wasted, they lose their susceptibility to stimuli, and the food does no good.
The minute vessels when paralysed offer inefficient resistance to the force of the heart, and the pulsating organ thus liberated, like the main-spring of a clock from which the resistance has been removed, quickens in action, dilating the feebly resistant vessels, and giving evidence really not of increased, but of wasted power.
In the scientific education of the people no fact is more deserving of special comment than this fact, that excitement is wasted force, the running down of the animal mechanism before it has served out its time of motion.
The affected limb becomes wasted, and is sometimes permanently flexed.
The limb wasted away, becoming small and short, and her back became crooked.
The sad results of their excessive use are seen in thousands of cases of shattered nerves and wasted vigor.
The eye becomes more brilliant and sparkling, the patient is less morose, his digestion improves, he is less listless and despondent, takes more interest in business and other affairs, his sleep is less disturbed and more refreshing, the strength improves, and, if the sexual organs had become wasted in size, weak in function, and flaccid and soft, they begin, by and by, to have more tone and firmness, and to develope and increase in size, as their nutrition is restored, by the checking of the exhausting drain which they have sustained.
Time, equipment and manpower were scarce commodities which could not be wasted upon satisfying Marsological curiosity.
He pedaled hard to get out of range, but they wasted no more ammunition.
If they wasted much time in searching for a place where his footprints left the gully, he might have a chance to escape.
And though the chalice was shattered, the wine was not yet wasted all away.
Let Fate send me other sons to follow in my trade, or I have wasted forty gold pieces on this prophecy.