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Waving   /wˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Wave  v. t.  See Waive.


Wave  v. t.  
1.
To move one way and the other; to brandish. "(Aeneas) waved his fatal sword."
2.
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. "Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea."
3.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. (Obs.)
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. "Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground." "She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal."


Wave  v. i.  (past & past part. waved; pres. part. waving)  
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." "Where the flags of three nations has successively waved."
2.
To be moved to and fro as a signal.
3.
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. (Obs.) "He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm."





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"Waving" Quotes from Famous Books



... of facilitating the irrigation. When the crops are young and low every field is seen marked out by its banks. But as the crops grow the banks are hidden and we see nothing but one great expense of waving grain ready for the harvest. So, while the useful, denominational banks which have divided us in mission lands are still there we thank God that they are being hidden more, year by year, as the harvest of Christian love ...
— India's Problem Krishna or Christ • John P. Jones
... him suffer, for that bitter agony that had turned his young, fair locks to snowy white; she wept the tears for him that she could fancy he must have shed in those long years for her. She buried her face and sobbed aloud, so that even the black fan-girl who stood waving the long palm-leaf over her in the dim light of the bedchamber—even the poor black creature from the farther desert, whom her mistress did not half believe human, felt pity for the royal sorrow she saw, and took ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford
... easily perceived the town in great confusion, and the people running in such crowds, that in the hurry many were trampled to death in endeavouring to pass the gates:—at a distance they perceived standards waving in the air, but could not yet distinguish what arms they bore.—A certain shivering and palpitation, the natural consequence of suspence, ran thro' all their nerves, divided as they were at this sight, between hope and fear; but when ...
— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood
... brighter than her dark, bright eyes; no silvery music that the heir of all the Walravens had ever heard was clearer or sweeter than her free, girlish laugh; no golden sunburst ever more beautiful than the waving banner of wild, yellow hair. Mollie Dane stood ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... cavalry, in splendid uniforms; and then their imperial majesties Napoleon III and Abdul Aziz. The vast concourse of people swung their hats and shouted—the windows and housetops in the wide vicinity burst into a snowstorm of waving handkerchiefs, and the wavers of the same mingled their cheers with those of the masses below. It was a ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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