\Waive\, n. [See {Waive}, v. t. ]
1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] --Donne.
2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the
   law. See {Waive}, v. t., 3
   (b), and the Note.

\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}.]
1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or
   claim; to refuse; to forego.
         He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.  --Chaucer.
         We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,
         absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
                                               --Barrow.
2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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.
Note: 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.

\Waive\, v. i.
To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.]
      To waive from the word of Solomon.       --Chaucer.