Definition of refuse

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Refuse (v. i.) To deny compliance; not to comply.

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Swaddle :: Swad (n.) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
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..
Culls :: Culls (v. t.) Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked..
Nill :: Nill (v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act.
Forsake :: Forsake (v. t.) To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
Disworship :: Disworship (v. t.) To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy.
Take :: Take (v. t.) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence..
Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..
Discredit :: Discredit (v. t.) To refuse credence to; not to accept as true; to disbelieve; as, the report is discredited..
Take :: Take (v. t.) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit..
Scutch :: Scutch (n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.
Disown :: Disown (v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings..
Gobbing :: Gobbing (n.) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.
Trash :: Trash (n.) That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
Taplash :: Taplash (n.) Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor..
Renounce :: Renounce (v. t.) To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne..
Screenings :: Screenings (n. pl.) The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc..
Mutiny :: Mutiny (v. i.) To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority..
Disfellowship :: Disfellowship (v. t.) To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate..
Spetches :: Spetches (n. pl.) Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made..
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