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, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer.

One who refuses or rejects.

To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. Shak.

To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow.

Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore. Weale.

To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.

To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the Evelyn. Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor.

To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.

The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.

(Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea. -- Oil cake the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail o…

Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

e Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charies II. Cameron and others refused to accept the "indulgence" offered the Presbyterian clergy, insisted on the Solemn league and Covenant, and in 1680 declared Charles II deposed for tyranny, breach of faith, etc. Cameron was killed at the battle of Airdmos…

g sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm.