Waste a.
 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
    The dismal situation waste and wild.   --Milton.
    His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.   --Sir W. Scott.
 2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
    But his waste words returned to him in vain.   --Spenser.
 Not a waste or needless sound,
 Till we come to holier ground.   --Milton.
    Ill day which made this beauty waste.   --Emerson.
 3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
    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.