Waster : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Waster	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waster n someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: wastrel, waster] a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" Synonym(s): destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waster \Wast"er\, n. [OE. wastour, OF. wasteor, gasteor. See {Waste}, v. t.] 1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. --Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters of candles. --Swift. 2. An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a {thief}. --Halliwell. 3. A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil. Half a dozen of veneys at wasters with a good fellow for a broken head. --Beau. & Fl. Being unable to wield the intellectual arms of reason, they are fain to betake them unto wasters. --Sir T. Browne.