Dictionary entry

Wave (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wave, v. t. 1. To move one way and the other; to brandish. “ waved his fatal sword.” Dryden.

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. 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.