WAIVE

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne.

2.
n.

A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.

3.
v.

To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. Chaucer. We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. Barrow.

4.
v.

To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

5.
v.

To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law)

6.
v.

To desert; to abandon. Burrill.

7.
v.

To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.

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