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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Disobey :: Disobey (v. i.) To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.
Culls :: Culls (v. t.) Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked..
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..
Taplash :: Taplash (n.) Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part..
Ebrillade :: Ebrillade (n.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn..
Spetches :: Spetches (n. pl.) Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made..
Rammel :: Rammel (n.) Refuse matter.
Warn :: Warn (v. t.) To refuse.
Disaffirm :: Disaffirm (v. t.) To refuse to confirm; to annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal..
Wern :: Wern (v. t.) To refuse.
Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Recusant :: Recusant (n.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope..
Dross :: Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
So :: So (adv.) Is it thus? do you mean what you say? -- with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses? So?.
Boon :: Boon (n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching..
Scum :: Scum (v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
Calx :: Calx (n.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post..
Forbear :: Forbear (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
Midden :: Midden (n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens..
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