Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WAT'TLE, v.t.

1. To bind with twigs.
2. To twist or interweave twigs one with another; to plat; to form a kind of network with flexible branches; as, to wattle a hedge. – Mortimer.

WAT'TLED, pp.

Bound or interwoven with twigs.

WAT'TLING, ppr.

Interweaving with twigs.

WAUL, v.i.

To cry as a cat.

WAUL'ING, ppr.

Crying as a cat.

WAVE, n. [Sax. weg, wæg, a wave, a way; both the same word, and both coinciding with the root of wag, wagon, vacillate, weigh, &c. The sense is, a going, a moving, appropriately a moving one way and the other; G. woge; Sw. våg; Ir. buaice.]

1. A moving swell or volume of water; usually, a swell raised and driven by wind. A pebble thrown into still water produces waves, which form concentric circles, receding from the point where the pebble fell. But waves are generally raised and driven by wind, and the word comprehends any moving swell on the surface of water, from the smallest ripple to the billows of a tempest. The wave behind impels the wave before. – Pope.
2. Unevenness; inequality of surface. – Newton.
3. The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.

WAVE, v.i. [Sax. wafian; probably a corrupt orthography.]

1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to undulate. His purple robes wav'd careless to the winds. – Trumbull.
2. To be moved, as a signal. – B. Jonson.
3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state. [Obs.]

WAVE, v.t.¹ [See Waver.]

1. To raise into inequalities of surface. – Shak.
2. To move one way and the other; to brandish; as, to wave the hand; to wave a sword. – Dryden.
3. To waft; to remove any thing floating. – Brown.
4. To beckon; to direct by a waft or waving motion. – Shak.

WAVE, v.t.² [Norm. weyver, to wave or waive; waifnez, waived; wefs, weifs, waifs.]

1. To put off; to cast off; to cast away; to reject; as, to wave goods stolen; usually written waive.
2. To quit; to depart from. He resolved not to wave his way. – Wotton.
3. To put off; to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue; as, to wave a motion. He offered to wave the subject. [This is the usual sense.]
4. To relinquish, as a right, claim, or privilege. [Generally written waive.]

WAV'ED, pp.

1. Moved one way and the other; brandished.
2. Put off; omitted.
3. adj. In heraldry, indented.
4. Variegated in luster; as, waved silk.
5. In botany, update; rising and falling in waves on the margin, as a leaf. – Lee.

WAVE'LESS, a.

Free from waves; undisturbed; unagitated; as, the waveless sea.

WAVE'LIKE, a.

Resembling a wave; undulating.

WA'VEL-LITE, a. [from Wavel, the discoverer.]

A mineral, a phosphate or sub-phosphate of alumin; commonly found in crystals, which usually adhere and radiate, forming hemispherical or globular concretions, from a very small size to an inch in diameter. The form of the crystal is usually that of a rhombic prism with dihedral terminations. – Phillips.

WAVE-LOAF, n. [wave and loaf.]

A loaf for a wave-offering.

WAVE'-OF-FER-ING, n.

An offering made with waving toward the four cardinal points. – Numb. xviii.

WA'VER, n.

A name given to a sapling or young timber tree in England. [Local.]

WA'VER, v.i. [Sax. wafian; Dan. svæver, from væver, to weave, that is to move one way and the other.]

1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other. – Boyle.
2. To fluctuate; to be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; as, to waver in opinion; to waver in faith. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering. Heb. x.
3. To totter; to reel; to be in danger of falling. – Holyday.

WA'VER-ER, n.

One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith or opinion.

WA'VER-ING, ppr. [or adj.]

Fluctuating; being in doubt; undetermined.

WA'VER-ING-LY, adv.

In a fluctuating, doubtful manner.

WA'VER-ING-NESS, n.

State or quality of being wavering. – Mountague.

WAVE-SUB-JECT'ED, a.

Subject to be overflowed. – Goldsmith.

WAVE-WORN, n. [wave and worn.]

Worn by the waves. The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd. – Shak.

WAV'ING, ppr.

Moving as a wave; playing to and fro; brandishing.

WAV'URE, n.

The act of waving or putting off. – R. Peel.