waive

  1. Verb.  (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
  2. Verb.  (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
  3. Verb.  (transitive, legal) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.
  4. Verb.  (context, now) To put aside, avoid.
  5. Verb.  (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
  7. Noun.  (obsolete, legal) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
  8. Noun.  (obsolete form of, waif) .

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