(now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited. / Barren; desert. / Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. / Superfluous; needless. / Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

(transitive) To devastate; to destroy. / (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. / (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.

A place with no remaining resources; a desert. / Any barren or uninteresting place. / A devastated, not (or no longer) habitable area.

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet. / (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

To move like a wasp; to buzz

Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)

(countable, dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly. / (countable, obsolete) A neglected child. / (uncountable, obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.

was not (negative auxiliary)

(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.

Obsolete form of waist.