wave

1. v. t. See Waive. Source: opted

2. v. i. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate. Source: opted

3. v. i. To be moved to and fro as a signal. Source: opted

4. v. i. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. Source: opted

5. v. t. To move one way and the other; to brandish. Source: opted

6. v. t. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. Source: opted

7. v. t. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. Source: opted

8. v. t. To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate. Source: opted

9. v. i. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation. Source: opted

10. v. i. A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation. Source: opted

11. v. i. Water; a body of water. Source: opted

12. v. i. Unevenness; inequality of surface. Source: opted

13. v. i. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc. Source: opted

14. v. i. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. Source: opted

15. v. i. Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm. Source: opted

16. n. Woe. Source: opted

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