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A waif; a castaway.

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  1. v. t. A waif; a castaway.
  2. v. t. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
  3. v. t. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
  4. v. t. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
  5. v. t. To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
  6. v. t. To desert; to abandon.
  7. v. i. To turn aside; to recede.
  8. v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  9. v. lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
  10. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t.,3 (b), and the Note.
  11. v:100 v. do without or cease to hold or adhere to