Re·fuse v. t. [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. --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.”