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waved |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waved} (w[=a]vd); p. pr & vb n. {Waving}.] [OE. waven, AS wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about cf Icel. v[=a]fa to vibrate. Cf {Waft}, {Waver}.] 1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other to float; to flutter; to undulate. His purple robes waved careless to the winds. --Trumbull. Where the flags of three nations has successively waved. --Hawthorne. 2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson 3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.] He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Waved \Waved\, a. 1. Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as waved edge. 2. Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as waved, or watered, silk. 3. (Her.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc
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