Waive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. WAIVED; p. pr. & vb. n. WAIVING.] [Written also wave.] [See WAVE.] 1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. 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 forsake; to desert; to abandon. Burrill.

☞ 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 frank-pledge or decemary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. Burrill.