† wastumn.
Obsolete.
1.
a. Fruit, crop, produce; abundance of produce.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun]
wastumc888
tiltha1100
estrea1300
madder-cropc1300
gainage1390
cropa1400
yieldingc1405
emblement1495
burden?1523
increase1535
field-ware1546
gather1555
esplees1598
husbandrya1616
glebe1660
warea1661
récolte1669
tilling1680
tillage1681
stuffa1687
growing1722
bearing1747
raccolta1748
the crops1789
plant1832
raising1857
cropping1861
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxix. 13 Be þæs cyninges gebode brengð eorðe ælcne westm.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 17 Ælc god treow byrþ gode wæstmas.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 109 Iliche þan treo þe bereð lef and blosman, and nane westmas ne bereð.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9284 Illc an treo þatt..Ne bereþþ nohht god wasstme Shall..beon hæwenn upp.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 16029 Þenne scullen i Bruttene blissen wurðen riue. wastmes and wederes sele after heore i-wille.
b. transferred. Fruit (of the body, womb), offspring.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring
bairn-teamc885
childeOE
tudderc897
seedOE
teamOE
wastum971
offspringOE
i-cundeOE
fostera1175
i-streonc1175
strainc1175
brooda1300
begetc1300
barm-teamc1315
issuea1325
progenyc1330
fruit of the loinsa1340
bowel1382
young onec1384
suita1387
engendrurea1400
fruitinga1400
geta1400
birth?a1425
porturec1425
progenityc1450
bodyfauntc1460
generation1477
fryc1480
enfantement1483
infantment1483
blood issue1535
propagation1536
offspring1548
race1549
family?1552
increase1552
breed1574
begetting1611
sperm1641
bed1832
fruitage1850
971 Blickl. Hom. 5 Forþon se wæstm þines innoþes is gebletsad.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1937 Þær brohhte ȝho þatt wasstme forþ. Off all unnwemmedd wambe.
c. figurative.
ΚΠ
971 Blickl. Hom. 249 Andreas, for hwan gæst þu swa buton wæstme þines gewinnes.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15911 & nesshenn itt [thy heart] & godenn. Swa þatt itt bere þesste bett. God wasstme i gode dedess.
2. Growth of body, stature, form. Also (nonce-use), greatness.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily height > [noun]
wastumOE
staturec1380
pitch1575
status1577
one's lengtha1586
inchesa1616
standard1833
OE Beowulf 1352 Oðer earmsceapen on weres wæstmum wræclastas træd.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 3 Zacheus..wæs lytel on wæstmum.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 19 Þe fader is on þe sune on þrie wise. Þat on is on westme, for þat he is muchel and mihti ouer alle þing.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 127 Alse wat se he was þoȝen on wintre and on wastme..þo nam he ȝeme of mannes liflode.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 69 A meiden..feier & freolich o wlite & o westum.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7834 Þa iwarð ich on vestme wunder ane fæir.
Derivatives
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective]
unbearingc825
deafc897
westyOE
wastumlessc975
wilderna1050
drya1340
gelda1350
barren1377
unfructuousa1382
poora1387
ungreenc1400
infecundc1420
farrow1494
fruitlessa1513
unfruitful1531
sterile1552
hungry1577
penurious1594
unfertile1596
infertile1598
howling1611
ungenitureda1616
arid1656
infecundous1661
ungendering1706
yeld1721
unproductive1725
infructuose1727
ungenerative1733
fallow1791
nihili-parturient1812
dowf1824
wastec1825
non-productive1830
unreproductive1836
infructuous1860
unvintaged1869
increative1877
ablastemic1881
submarginal1895
c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 22 Sine fructu westemleas.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13858 All iss itt [the heart] uss bifrorenn swa. Þurrh hete. & niþ. & irre Þatt all itt liþ uss wasstme læs. Off alle gode dedess.
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