Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An old spelling of
waive .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To waive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete form of
weave . - verb Obsolete form of
waive . - noun obsolete a female outlaw
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Examples
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Thanne were I deed, ther mighte it no-thing weyve. '
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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"I'm gauin 'ower to the toon to buy a feow hanks o' worset to weyve a pair o 'stockins to my man.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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"It's a sair peety," said Janet, "'at the men fowk disna learn to weyve stockin's, or dee something or ither wi' their han's.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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