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   Waive (?), n. [See Waive, v. t. ]
   1. A waif; a castaway.  [Obs.]  Donne.
   
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   2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law.  See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
   
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   Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble.  Cf. Vibrate, Waif.] [Written also wave.]
   
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   1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
   
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   He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. Chaucer.
   
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   We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. Barrow.
   
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   2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
   
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   3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.  (b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon.  Burrill.
   
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   ☞ The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.  Burrill.
   
   
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   Waive, v. i. To turn aside; to recede.  [Obs.]
   
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   To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.
   
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