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    Waive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Waived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waiving.] [OE. waiven, weiven, to set aside, remove, OF. weyver, quesver, to waive, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. veifa to wave, to vibrate, akin to Skr. vip to tremble. Cf. Vibrate, Waif.] [Written also wave.]
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    1. To relinquish; to give up claim to; not to insist on or claim; to refuse; to forego.
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      He waiveth milk, and flesh, and all.
      Chaucer.

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      We absolutely do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others.
      Barrow.

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    2. To throw away; to cast off; to reject; to desert.
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    3. (Law) (a) To throw away; to relinquish voluntarily, as a right which one may enforce if he chooses. (b) (O. Eng. Law) To desert; to abandon.
      Burrill.

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      ☞ The term was applied to a woman, in the same sense as outlaw to a man. A woman could not be outlawed, in the proper sense of the word, because, according to Bracton, she was never in law, that is, in a frankpledge or decennary; but she might be waived, and held as abandoned.
      Burrill.

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    Wave , v. t. See Waive.
    Sir H. Wotton. Burke.

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    Wave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to wonder; akin to wæfre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. vāfa to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.]
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    1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
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      His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
      Trumbull.

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      Where the flags of three nations has successively waved.
      Hawthorne.

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    2. To be moved to and fro as a signal.
      B. Jonson.

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    3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate. [Obs.]
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      He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.
      Shak.

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

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    2. To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
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      Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea.
      Shak.

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    3. To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft. [Obs.]
      Sir T. Browne.

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    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.
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      Look, with what courteous action
      It waves you to a more removed ground.
      Shak.

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      She spoke, and bowing waved
      Dismissal.
      Tennyson.

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    Wave, n. [From Wave, v.; not the same word as OE. wawe, waghe, a wave, which is akin to E. wag to move. √138. See Wave, v. i.]
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    1. An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
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      The wave behind impels the wave before.
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    2. (Physics) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
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    3. Water; a body of water. [Poetic] “Deep drank Lord Marmion of the wave.”
      Sir W. Scott.

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      Build a ship to save thee from the flood,
      I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine.
      Chapman.

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    4. Unevenness; inequality of surface.
      Sir I. Newton.

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    5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
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    6. The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
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    7. Something resembling or likened to a water wave, as in rising unusually high, in being of unusual extent, or in progressive motion; a swelling or excitement, as of feeling or energy; a tide; flood; period of intensity, usual activity, or the like; as, a wave of enthusiasm; waves of applause.
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      Wave front (Physics), the surface of initial displacement of the particles in a medium, as a wave of vibration advances. -- Wave length (Physics), the space, reckoned in the direction of propagation, occupied by a complete wave or undulation, as of light, sound, etc.; the distance from a point or phase in a wave to the nearest point at which the same phase occurs. -- Wave line (Shipbuilding), a line of a vessel's hull, shaped in accordance with the wave-line system. -- Wave-line system, Wave-line theory (Shipbuilding), a system or theory of designing the lines of a vessel, which takes into consideration the length and shape of a wave which travels at a certain speed. -- Wave loaf, a loaf for a wave offering. Lev. viii. 27. -- Wave moth (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small geometrid moths belonging to Acidalia and allied genera; -- so called from the wavelike color markings on the wings. -- Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points. Num. xviii. 11. -- Wave of vibration (Physics), a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibratory state from particle to particle through a body. -- Wave surface. (a) (Physics) A surface of simultaneous and equal displacement of the particles composing a wave of vibration. (b) (Geom.) A mathematical surface of the fourth order which, upon certain hypotheses, is the locus of a wave surface of light in the interior of crystals. It is used in explaining the phenomena of double refraction. See under Refraction. -- Wave theory. (Physics) See Undulatory theory, under Undulatory.
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