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   Waive , n. [See Waive, v. t. ]
   A waif; a castaway. [Obs.]
   Donne.
   
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   (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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   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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   To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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   (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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