noun.
A manufacturers' name for a defect in articles of glass, consisting in a slightly protuberant ridge on the surface due to the glass having cooled irregularly and too much before blowing.
To move up and down or to and fro; undulate; fluctuate; bend or sway back and forth; flutter.
To have an undulating form or direction; curve alternately in opposite directions.
To give a signal by a gesture of movement up and down or to and fro.
To waver in mind; vacillate.
To move to and fro; cause to shake, rock, or sway; brandish.
Specifically To offer as a wave-offering. See wave-offering.
To shape or dispose in undulations; cause to wind in and out, as a line in curves, or a surface in ridges and furrows.
To decorate with a waving or winding pattern.
To signal by a wave of the hand, or of a flag, a handkerchief, or the like; direct by a waving gesture or other movement, as in beckoning.
To express, as a command, direction, farewell, etc., by a waving movement or gesture.
To water, as silk. See water, v. t., 3.
A former spelling of waive.
An obsolete preterit of weave.
noun.
A disturbance of the surface of a body in the form of a ridge and trough, propagated by forces tending to restore the surface to its figure of equilibrium, the particles not advancing with the wave.
noun.
Water; a stream; the sea.
noun.
A form assumed by parts of a body which are out of equilibrium, such that as fast as the particles return they are replaced by others moving into neighboring positions of stress, so that the whole disturbance is continually propagated into new parts of the body while preserving more or less perfectly the same shape and other characters.
noun.
One of a series of curves in a waving line, or of ridges in a furrowed surface; an undulation; a swell.
noun.
Figuratively, a flood, influx, or rush of anything, marked by unusual volume, extent, uprising. etc., and thus contrasted with preceding and following periods of the opposite character; something that swells like a sea-wave at recurring intervals; often, a period of intensity, activity, or important results: as, a wave of religious enthusiasm; waves of prosperity.