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To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.

To refuse. [Obs.] Holinshed.

To refuse; to deny. [Obs.] "He shall not nayt ne deny his sin." Chaucer.

That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.

Not to will; to refuse; to reject. [Obs.] Certes, said he, I nill thine offered grace. Spenser.

The refuse of good ore. Raymond.

To dissent or refuse to concur.

One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union.

probable. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Odds and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.

That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish. The off als of other profession. South.

That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.

Removed scum; refuse; dross.

Old wife. [In the senses b and cwritten also oldwife.] (a) A prating old woman; a gossip. Refuse profane and old wives' fables. 1 Tim. iv. 7.

A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural. Milton. Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave. Shak.

noria. -- To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] Dryden. J. G. Saxe.

The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.

Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] Holland.

rce. -- To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak.

n), a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become…