Vassal
(Vas"sal), a. Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
The sun and every vassal star.
Keble. Vassal
(Vas"sal), v. t. To treat as a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Vassalage
(Vas"sal*age) n. [OE. vassalage, F. vasselage, LL. vassallaticum.]
1. The state of being a vassal, or feudatory.
2. Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.
3. A territory held in vassalage. "The Countship of Foix, with six territorial vassalages." Milman.
4. Vassals, collectively; vassalry. [R.] Shak.
5. Valorous service, such as that performed by a vassal; valor; prowess; courage. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Vassaless
(Vas"sal*ess), n. A female vassal. [R.] Spenser.
Vassalry
(Vas"sal*ry) n. The body of vassals. [R.]
Vast
(Vast) a. [Compar. Vaster ; superl. Vastest.] [L. vastus empty, waste, enormous, immense: cf.
F. vaste. See Waste, and cf. Devastate.]
1. Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.]
The empty, vast, and wandering air.
Shak. 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.
Through the vast and boundless deep.
Milton. 3. Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
4. Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
Syn. — Enormous; huge; immense; mighty.
Vast
(Vast), n. A waste region; boundless space; immensity. "The watery vast." Pope.
Michael bid sound
The archangel trumpet. Through the vast of heaven
It sounded.
Milton. Vastation
(Vas*ta"tion) n. [L. vastatio, fr. vastare to lay waste, fr. vastus empty, waste.] A laying
waste; waste; depopulation; devastation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Vastel
(Vas"tel) n. See Wastel. [Obs.] Fuller.
Vastidity
(Vas*tid"i*ty) n. [Cf. OF. vastité, L. vastitas.] Vastness; immensity. [Obs.] "All the world's
vastidity." Shak.
Vastitude
(Vas"ti*tude) n. [L. vastitudo.]
1. Vastness; immense extent. [R.]
2. Destruction; vastation. [Obs.] Joye.
