Refuse /(r?*f?z")/

imp. & p. p. Refused; p. pr. & vb. n. Refusing

1. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

   That never yet refused your hest.

2. 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. (Mil.)
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.

4. To disown. [Obs.]

1. To deny compliance; not to comply.

   Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse.

   If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword.

1. Refusal. [Obs.]

1. That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

1. Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

   Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.