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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wave \Wave\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Waved}; 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Waved \Waved\, adjective
1. Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.
2. Having a wavelike appearance; marked with wavelike lines of color; as, waved, or watered, silk.
3. (Her.) Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc.
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