vast

a. [ Compar. Vaster superl. Vastest. ] [ L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf. F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through the vast and boundless deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Very great in force; mighty; as, vast labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Enormous; huge; immense; mighty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. “The watery vast.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Michael bid sound
The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven
It sounded. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vastatio, fr. vastare to lay waste, fr. vastus empty, waste. ] A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Wastel. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. vastité, L. vastitas. ] Vastness; immensity. [ Obs. ] “All the world's vastidity.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vastitudo. ] 1. Vastness; immense extent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destruction; vastation. [ Obs. ] Joye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vastitas. ] Vastness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The huge vastity of the world. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]