Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WAVE
WAVE, v.t.1 [See Waver.]
- To raise into inequalities of surface. – Shak.
- To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword. – Dryden.
- To waft; to remove any thing floating. – Brown.
- To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion. – Shak.
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