A waif; a castaway.
A woman put out of the protection of the law. See Waive, v. t., 3 (b), and the Note.
To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses.
To turn aside; to recede.
See Waive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
