Wahvey

v. t. 1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. “[ Aeneas ] waved his fatal sword.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look, with what courteous action
It waves you to a more removed ground. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

She spoke, and bowing waved
Dismissal. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. √138. See Wave, v. i. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wave behind impels the wave before. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Water; a body of water. [ Poetic ] “Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Build a ship to save thee from the flood,
I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Unevenness; inequality of surface. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm; waves of applause. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. --
Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same phase occurs. --
Wave line (Shipbuilding), a line of a vessel's hull, shaped in accordance with the wave-line system. --
Wave-line system,
Wave-line theory (Shipbuilding), a system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave which travels at a certain speed. --
Wave loaf, a loaf for a wave offering. Lev. viii. 27. --
Wave moth (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small geometrid moths belonging to Acidalia and allied genera; -- so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings. --
Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points. Num. xviii. 11. --
Wave of vibration (Physics), a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body. --
Wave surface. (a) (Physics) A surface of simultaneous and equal displacement of the particles composing a wave of vibration. (b) (Geom.) A mathematical surface of the fourth order which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction. See under Refraction. --
Wave theory. (Physics) See Undulatory theory, under Undulatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Waive. Sir H. Wotton. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little wave; a ripple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Dr. Wm. Wavel, the discoverer. ] (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina, occurring usually in hemispherical radiated forms varying in color from white to yellow, green, or black. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Wave, or Waver, v. ] A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]