WAVE (2)

wave (2). Wave, n. a billow at sea, &c. inequality, hollow

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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.]] 1. 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. 2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. B. Jonson.
3. 3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm. Shak.