From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Waive \Waive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waiving.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF.
weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa
to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf.
Vibrate, Waif.] [Written also wave.]
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1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or
claim; to refuse; to forego.
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He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. --Chaucer.
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We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,
absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
--Barrow.
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2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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3. (Law)
(a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right
which one may enforce if he chooses.
(b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon. --Burrill.
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Note: The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as
outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the
proper sense of the word, because, according to
Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a
frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and
held as abandoned. --Burrill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wave \Wave\, v. t.
1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. "[Aeneas]
waved his fatal sword." --Dryden.
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2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an
undulating form a surface to.
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Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.
--Shak.
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3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.] --Sir
T. Browne.
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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.
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Look, with what courteous action
It waves you to a more removed ground. --Shak.
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She spoke, and bowing waved
Dismissal. --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wave \Wave\ (w[=a]v), v. t.
See Waive. --Sir H. Wotton. --Burke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved; p. pr. & vb. n.
Waving.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to
wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to
be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[=a]fa
to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.]
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1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the
other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
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His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
--Trumbull.
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Where the flags of three nations has successively
waved. --Hawthorne.
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2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson.
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3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to
vacillate. [Obs.]
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He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
good nor harm. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wave \Wave\, n. [From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe,
waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. [root]138.
See Wave, v. i.]
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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.
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The wave behind impels the wave before. --Pope.
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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.
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3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] "Deep drank Lord Marmion
of the wave." --Sir W. Scott.
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Build a ship to save thee from the flood,
I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine.
--Chapman.
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4. Unevenness; inequality of surface. --Sir I. Newton.
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5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the
hand, a flag, etc.
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6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered,
or calendered, or on damask steel.
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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.
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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.
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