| (v. t.) | To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. |
| (v. t.) | To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks. |
| (v. t.) | To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor. |
| (v. t.) | To disown. |
| (v. i.) | To deny compliance; not to comply. |
| (n.) | Refusal. |
| (n.) | That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter. |
| (a.) | Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless. |