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.
Look, with what courteous action It waves you to a more removed ground.
Shak.
She spoke, and bowing waved Dismissal.
Tennyson.
Wave, n. [From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave,
which is akin to E. wag to move. √136. See Wave, v. i.]
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.
The wave behind impels the wave before.
Pope.
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.
3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] "Deep drank Lord Marmion of the
wave." Sir W. Scott.
Build a ship to save thee from the flood, I 'll furnish thee with fresh
wave, bread, and wine.
Chapman.