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Waive: Definition and part of speech

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Waive

  1. v. t. A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
  2. v. t. A waif; a castaway.
  3. v. t. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
  4. v. t. To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
  5. v. t. To desert; to abandon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Waiter: Definition and part of speech

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Waiter

  1. n. A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
  2. n. One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.