Definition of "waive"

waive¹

/weɪv/

verb
third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived
1. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.
  1. (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
2. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
  Quotations
  […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others
  a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”
3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).
  Quotations
  but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.
  1851, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, Law Dictionary and Glossary

waive²

/weɪv/

verb
third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived
1. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.

waive³

/weɪv/

noun
plural waives
1. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
2. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.
  Quotations
  […] what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?
  1624, John Donne, Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, edited by John Sparrow, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923,