Vocabulary : Wastel to Watch

Wastel : A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.
Wasteness : The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation. ;; That which is waste; a desert; a waste.
Waster : One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. ;; An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief. ;; A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
Wastethrift : A spendthrift.
Wasteweir : An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.

Wasting : of Waste ;; Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune.
Wastor : A waster; a thief.
Wastorel : See Wastrel.
Wastrel : Any waste thing or substance ;; Waste land or common land. ;; A profligate. ;; A neglected child; a street Arab. ;; Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
Watch : The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night. ;; One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. ;; The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. ;; The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night. ;; A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring. ;; An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch. ;; That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the star

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