adj. I. of open country, waste, uncultivated and uninhabited, desert :-- Ðara Terfinna land wæs eal wéste, búton ðǽr huntan gewícodon, oþþe fisceras, Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 17, 29: 1, 10; Swt. 48, 25. Ðeós stów ys wéste desertus est locus, Mt. Kmbl. 14, 15. Is sǽd ðæt ðæt land wéste (desertus) wunige, Bd. 1, 15; S. 483, 27. Ball (all of the earth) ðæt on eallum ðeódum wéstes ligeþ, Bt. 18, 1; Fox 62, 15. On wéstere (wéstre, ) stówe, Lk. Skt. 9, 12. On wéstum lande in terra deserta, Deut. 32, 10. Hé férde on wéste stówe, Mk. Skt. 1, 35 : 6, 31, 32: Lk. Skt. 4, 42 : 9, 10: Exon. Th. 209, 12; Ph. 169. Hé sealde him wéste land, Ps. Th. 77, 55. Hé ne mihte on ða ceastre gán, ac beón úte on wéstum stówum, Mk. Skt. 1, 45. Of ðissum wídum, wéstum mórum a desertis montibus, Ps. Th. 77, 6. II. waste, empty, unused :-- Seó grundleáse swelgend hæfþ swíþe manegu wéste holu on tó gadrianne, Bt. 7, 4; Fox 22, 32. III. waste, useless, unproductive :-- Hé geseah deorc gesweorc semian sweart under roderum, wonn and wéste, Cd. Th. 7, 22; Gen. 110. IV. of habitations, waste, deserted, desolate :-- Byð eówer hús eów wéste (deserta) forlǽten, Mt. Kmbl. 23, 38. Wese wíc heora wéste (woestu, Ps. Surt.) and ídel, Ps. Th. 68, 26. Wéste (wóstu, Ps. Surt.), 108, 7. Hié gedydon on ánre wéstre ceastre, Chr. 894; Erl. 93, 5. Hé gesyhð wínsele wéstne, Beo. Th. 4903; B. 2456. On wéste wíc, Cd. Th. 128, 25; Gen. 2132. Babylonia, seó ðe mǽst wæs and ǽrest ealra burga, seó is nú læst and wéstast, Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 74, 23. V. waste, spoiled :-- Ðonne ealle ðisse worulde wela wéste stondeþ, Exon. Th. 290, 33 ; Wand. 74. VI. deprived, devoid (with gen.) :-- Bið on eorðan wéste (wésðe, ) wísdómes, se þurh ðone cantic ne can Crist geherian, Salm. Kmbl. 43; Sal. 22. [O. Sax. wósti: O. Frs. wóste : O. H. Ger. wuosti solus, desertus, solitarius, vastus.] weste