Definition of "wastery" [wastery]

• See wastry.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "[EDITOR'S NOTE: I have made up a total of two words in the last two days: 'wastery' and 'sinnery'."
• "I've done enough to avoid any feelings of delinquent wastery, but enough to keep it from being a hectic mess."
• "It was my first thought to have made a fire and burned them; but my disposition has always been opposed to wastery, for one thing; and for another, to have burned these things that she had worn so close upon her body seemed in the nature of a cruelty."