a waif; a castaway.-a woman put out of the protection of the law.  see waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the note.-to relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.-to throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.-to throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.-to desert; to abandon.-to turn aside; to recede.