Ref"use , a.
Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
Everything that was vile and
refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1. Sam.
xv. 9.
Ref`use (r?f"?s;277), n. [F. refus refusal, also, that which is refused. See Refuse to deny.]
That which is
refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
Syn.
-- Dregs; sediment; scum;
recrement; dross.
Re*fuse" , n. Refusal. [Obs.]
Fairfax.
Re*fuse" , v. i. To deny compliance; not to comply.
Too proud to
ask, too humble to refuse.
Garth. If ye refuse . . . ye shall be
devoured with the sword.
Isa. i.
20.
Re*fuse" (r?*f?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refused (-f?zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refusing.]
[F.
refuser, either from (assumed) LL.
refusare to refuse, v. freq. of L.
refundere to pour back, give back, restore (see Refund to repay), or.
fr. L. recusare to decline, refuse cf. Accuse, Ruse),
influenced by L. refutare to drive back, repel, refute. Cf. Refute.]
1. To deny,
as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do
or grant.
That never yet refused your hest.
Chaucer.
2. (Mil.) 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.
3. To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
The cunning workman never doth refuse
The meanest tool that he may chance to use.
Herbert.
4. To disown. [Obs.] "Refuse thy name." Shak.
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