Definition of wave

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Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate..

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Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..
Breaker :: Breaker (n.) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface..
Fluctuation :: Fluctuation (n.) A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea..
Brandish :: Brandish (n.) To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish..
Plangent :: Plangent (a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave..
Fluctiferous :: Fluctiferous (a.) Tending to produce waves.
Quartering :: Quartering (a.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object..
Spray :: Spray (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like..
Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..
Waved :: Waved (imp. & p. p.) of Wav.
Vibrate :: Vibrate (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions..
Pooping :: Pooping (n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.
Hoppestere :: Hoppestere (a.) An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as dancing (on the wave); by others as opposing, warlike..
Sinuosity :: Sinuosity (n.) A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..
Shake :: Shake (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
Undated :: Undated (a.) Rising and falling in waves toward the margin, as a leaf; waved..
Waved :: Waved (a.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc..
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel..
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