desart

English

Noun

desart (plural desarts)

  1. Obsolete spelling of desert
    • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎:
      So thou both here and there immortall art, And everie where through excellent desart.
    • 1786, Boswell, Life Of Johnson, Volume 5‎:
      Probably he had been thinking of the whole of the simile in Cato, of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly.
    • 1871, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte‎:
      We are like people on a desart island, out here in the wilderness--and if ships won't arrive to tell us how matters come on, we must send one out to l'arn it for us.

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