Hypertext Webster Gateway: "waving"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waved} (w[=a]vd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Waving}.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate,
to wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern
to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel.
v[=a]fa 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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
waving
adj : streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current
of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "a
fluttering scarf"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in
the breeze" [syn: {aflare}, {flaring}, {fluttering}, {flying}]
n : the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: {wave},
{wafture}]
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