n.
A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
v. t.
A waif; a castaway.
v. t.
A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
v. t.
To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
v. t.
To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
v. t.
To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
v. t.
To desert; to abandon.
v. i.
To turn aside; to recede.
n.
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
n.
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
v. i.
To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
v. i.
To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.