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DESERT, a. S as z [L. To sow, plant or scatter.]

1. Literally, forsaken; hence, uninhabited; as a desert isle. Hence, wild; untilled; waste; uncultivated; as a desert land or country.

2. Void; emprty; unoccupied.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

DESERT, n. An uninhabited tract of land; a region in its natural state; a wilderness; a solitude; particularly, a vast sandy plain, as the deserts of Arabia and Africa. But the word may be applied to an uninhabited country covered with wood.

DESERT, v.t. [L. To forsake.]

1. To forsake; to leave utterly; to abandon; to quit with a view not to return to; as, to desert a friend; to desert our country; to desert a cause.

2. To leave, without permission, a military band, or a ship, in which one is enlisted; to forsake the service in which one is engaged, in violation of duty; as, to desert the army; to desert ones colors; to desert a ship.

DESERT, v.i. To run away; to quit a service without permission; as, to desert from the army.

DESERT, n.

1. A deserving; that which gives a right to reward or demands, or which renders liable to punishment; merit or demerit; that which entitles to a recompense of equal to the offense; good conferred, or evil done, which merits an equivalent return. A wise legislature will reward or punish men according to their deserts.

2. That which is deserved; reward or punishment merited. In a future life, every man will receive his desert.
1913 Definition
Desert (desert)
n.(d*z1913 webster dictionaryrt")
De*sert"
[OF. deserte, desserte, merit, recompense, fr. deservir, desservir, to merit. See Deserve.]
  1. That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

    According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27.

    Andronicus, surnamed Pius
    For many good and great deserts to Rome.     Shak.

    His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamilton.

    Syn. -- Merit; worth; excellence; due.

  2. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa which are destitute of moisture and vegetation.

    A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. Pope.

  3. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.

    He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Is. li. 3.

    Also figuratively.

    Before her extended
    Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life.     Longfellow.

  4. Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

    He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. Luke ix. 10.

    Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
    And waste its sweetness on the desert air.     Gray.

    Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. -- Desert hare (Zoöl.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizonæ) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States. -- Desert mouse (Zoöl.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus), living in the Western deserts.

  5. To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
    "The deserted fortress." Prescott.
  6. To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
  7. To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

    The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. Bancroft.

    Syn. -- To abandon; forsake; leave; relinquish; renounce; quit; depart from; abdicate. See Abandon.

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