2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. B. Jonson.

3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.

[Obs.]

He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.

Shak.

Wave, v. t. 1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. "[Æneas]

waved his fatal sword." Dryden.

2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a

surface to.

Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.

Shak.

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