Waive, n.
Etymology: [See Waive, v. t. ]
1. A waif; a castaway. [Obs.] Donne.
2. (O. Eng. Law)
A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
2 other Webster entries under this spelling
Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.]
[Written also wave.]
1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego. He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. Chaucer. We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others. Barrow.
2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law)
To desert; to abandon. Burrill.
Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned. Burrill.
Waive, v. i.
To turn aside; to recede. [Obs.] To waive from the word of Solomon. Chaucer.
Shades of meaning
Fernald lists waive only as an antonym, under state.
He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.