2. (O. Eng. Law) A woman put out of the protection of the
law. See {Waive}, v. t., 3
(b), and the Note.
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.
To waive from the word of Solomon. --Chaucer.