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   Vast , a. [Compar. Vaster ; superl. Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]
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   Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]
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   The empty, vast, and wandering air.
   Shak.
   
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   Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
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   Through the vast and boundless deep.
   Milton.
   
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   Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
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   Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor.
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   Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
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   Syn. -- Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
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   Vast, n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. “The watery vast.”
   Pope.
   
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   Michael bid sound
   The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven
   It sounded.
   Milton.
   
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