Sc. [f. WASTER sb.1] trans. To spend or use extravagantly, to waste.
1821. Galt, Ann. Parish, v. 58. My servant lassies … wastered every thing at such a rate … that, long before the end of the year, the year’s stipend was all spent. Ibid. (1823), Entail, II. xix. 184. Since that time he’s been neither to bind nor to haud,… wastring his income in the most thoughtless way.
