vt a waif; a castaway.
2. waive ·vi to turn aside; to recede.
3. waive ·vt to desert; to abandon.
4. waive ·vt a woman put out of the protection of the law. ·see waive, ·vt, 3 (b), and the note.
5. waive ·vt to throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
6. waive ·vt to throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
7. waive ·vt to relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.