To strike by lightning; to make to wither. The “blasted oak.” This is the sense in which the word is used as an exclamation.
“If it [the [ghost] assume my noble father’s person,
Iʹll cross it, though it blast me.”
Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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