a. [f. WAIST + -ED2.] Having a waist (usu. of specified size or form). (For parasynthetic formations, as deep-, fair-, long-, short-waisted, see the first element.)
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, etc. (Arb.), 141. Shee limps in the going,… And as a cow wasted plods on, with an head like a lutecase.
1824. New Monthly Mag., XI. 124. Beautiful as youth; Waisted like Hebe; and with Dian’s step.
1913. E. T. Leeds, Archæol. Anglo-Sax. Settlements, vii. 132. A peculiar waisted beaker with rounded base often terminating in an excrescent knob.
