(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.
