What is "trifle away"

Usage examples of "trifle away".

There is no Comparison betwixt him and those that affect the Philosophers: He does not indeed follow the Schools, the Portico, or in long Disputations trifle away his own, and the Time of others.

Not only was the fiber rubbery, as Boranova had said, so that it compressed slightly under the force of the collision, then rebounded, pushing the ship a trifle away -- but the slimy intercellular fluid served as a cushion and a friction reducer.

Fortunately for them and for me, I was not long permitted to trifle away my time.

We visited one another in form, and mimic'd, as near as we could, all the miseries, the follies, and imperti-nences of the women of quality, in the round of which they trifle away their time, without its ever entering into their little heads that on earth there cannot subsist any thing more silly, more flat, more insipid and worthless, than, generally consider'd, their system of life is: they ought to treat the men as their tyrants, indeed!