WAIT—WHILE Wait"-a-while`, n. (a) One of the Australian wattle trees (Acacia colletioides), so called from the impenetrability of the thicket which it makes. (b) = Wait-a-bit.
WAIVE
Waive, n. Etym: [See Waive, v. t. ]
1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne.
2. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
WAIVE
Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] Etym:
[OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to
waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to
Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. Vibrate, Waif.] [Written also wave.]
1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. 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)
Defn: To desert; to abandon. Burrill.