see waive.-to play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.-to be moved to and fro as a signal.-to fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.-to move one way and the other; to brandish.-to raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.-to move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.-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.-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.-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.-water; a body of water.-unevenness; inequality of surface.-a waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.-the undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.-fig.: a swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.-woe.