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n. A waif; a castaway. (Old. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the law. A term applied to a woman as 'outlaw' is applied to a man. A man is an outlaw; a woman is a waive. (b), and the Note.

 - vb. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert. To abandon or forsake a right.

 - (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he ...