Definition of refuse

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Refuse (v. t.) To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor..

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Dispope :: Dispope (v. t.) To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom.
Bagasse :: Bagasse (n.) Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar..
Nayt :: Nayt (v. t.) To refuse; to deny.
Forsake :: Forsake (v. t.) To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
Knobstick :: Knobstick (n.) One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trades union..
Breeze :: Breeze (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks..
Disown :: Disown (v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
Rape :: Rape (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc..
Scourage :: Scourage (n.) Refuse water after scouring.
Waste :: Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc..
Pug :: Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
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..
Waste :: Waste (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse..
Disbelieve :: Disbelieve (v. t.) Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not to be true or actual.
Dreg :: Dreg (n.) Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society..
Dross :: Dross (n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
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..
Brash :: Brash (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges..
Offal :: Offal (n.) That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
Dishonor :: Dishonor (v. t.) To refuse or decline to accept or pay; -- said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange..
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