Definition of refuse

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Refuse (v. t.) To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant..

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Bavin :: Bavin (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood..
Heretic :: Heretic (n.) One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith determined by the authority of the universal church..
Rape :: Rape (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc..
Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage..
Waste :: Waste (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper..
Rape :: Rape (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
Nonjuror :: Nonjuror (n.) One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite..
Slough :: Slough (v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.
Disobey :: Disobey (v. t.) Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws..
Disclaim :: Disclaim (v. t.) To deny, as a claim; to refuse..
Hards :: Hards (n. pl.) The refuse or coarse part of fiax; tow.
Rammel :: Rammel (n.) Refuse matter.
Boon :: Boon (n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching..
Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief..
Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
Disown :: Disown (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Ciderkin :: Ciderkin (n.) A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.
Marc :: Marc (n.) The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes..
Scutch :: Scutch (n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
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