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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of desert.

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  • noun Obsolete spelling of desert.

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Examples

  • There are several districts of sandy desart in Col. There are forty-eight lochs of fresh water; but many of them are very small — meer pools.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Cato, of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • O'er this desart bright Let thy moon arise While I close my eyes. ''

    The Annotated "I Will Take You Home" John Perry Barlow 2005

  • And from Babyloyne, where the Soudan dwellethe, to go right betwene the oryent and the Septemtryon, toward the grete Babyloyne, is 40 journeys to passen be desart.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And thanne gon men be desart unto the Vale of Elyn; in the whiche vale be 12 welles: and there ben 72 trees of palme, that beren the dates, the whiche Moyses fond with the children of Israel.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Within those walls, I have said, she reposes; they enclose my world, all without is to me a desart.

    The Italian 2004

  • Thus this unfortunate Lady, having found some company in this solitary desart, fed on herbes and roots, drinking faire running water, and weeping silently to her selfe, so often as she remembred her husband, children, and former dayes past in much better manner.

    The Decameron 2004

  • And toward the Northe is the desart, that durethe unto Syrye: and so is the contree strong on alle sydes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • ‘Sometimes I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desart.’

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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  • Albe — the dear capricious, fascinating Albe — has left this desart world!...God grant I may die young!

    -Mary Shelley's Journal of Sorrow

    December 29, 2013