- (v.t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
- (v.t.) A waif; a castaway.
- (v.t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
- (v.t.) A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
- (v.t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
- (v.i.) To turn aside; to recede.
- (v.t.) To desert; to abandon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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