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Wave (wāv), v. t. See Waive. Sir H. Wotton. Burke.
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Wave, v. t. 1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. “[Æneas] 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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