1. (v. t.) To relinquish; to give up claim to; as to waive one's right to a trial\; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.

2. (n.) A waif; a castaway.

3. (n.) A woman put out of the protection of the law.

4. (v. t.) To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.

5. (v. t.) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.

6. (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.

7. (v. i.) To turn aside; to recede.

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