Waur (?), a. [See Worse.] Worse. [Scot.]

Murder and waur than murder.

Sir W. Scott.

Wave (wv), v. t. See Waive. Sir H. Wotton. Burke.

Wave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved (wvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.] [OE.

waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to wæfre

wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover

about; cf. Icel. vfa to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.]

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.

Trumbull.

Where the flags of three nations has successively waved.

Hawthorne.

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