He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all. --Chaucer.
We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions,
absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
--Barrow.
2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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.
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.
His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
--Trumbull.
Where the flags of three nations has successively
waved. --Hawthorne.
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.
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.
4. Unevenness; inequality of surface. --Sir I. Newton.
5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the
hand, a flag, etc.
6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered,
or calendered, or on damask steel.
7. Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or
energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
{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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}.
2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an
undulating form a surface to.
Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.
--Shak.
3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.] --Sir
T. Browne.
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.