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▪ I. waving, vbl. n.|ˈweɪvɪŋ|
[f. wave v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb.
†1. The action of changing capriciously; vacillation, wavering, Obs.
a1628F. Greville Life of Sidney (1652) 223 She preserved her Religion without waving. 1665E. Hopkins Serm. Vanity (1685) 88 Such is the waving and fluctuation of all things here below.
2. a. Movement (of water, the sea) in waves; undulatory surface-movement (of a forest, crop, etc.).
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxii. 6. 235 Like as if a soft gale stir y⊇ sea, so as the waves ryse not with great rage, and yit there is some waving. 1714Addison Spect. No. 585 ⁋2, What tho' I am delighted with the Wavings of thy Forests. 1820Southey Wesley I. 80 Neither the waving of the sea, nor the motion of the ship, could take away the refreshing sleep which God gave them. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xviii, The waving of the corn.
†b. Undulating play of colour. Obs.
1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass ii. xxxvii. 61 Hardly would you believe the beauty, the toyes and wavings of divers colours.
3. Undulation in form.
1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 103 This is what I call the waving of the strata.
4. Motion to and fro (of something having a free end).
1751J. Harris Hermes iii. iii. (1765) 336 Sound and Motion..such as the Murmurs and Wavings of a Tree during a storm. 1828–41Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 151 The gleam of arms, and the waving of the pennons of an encamped army. 1883Abp. Benson in A. C. Benson Life (1899) II. i. 15 Beech trees and cedars standing as still as possible in it [sc. the soft rain] with such gentle slow wavings as to make the most of it.
5. a. The action or an act of moving (the hand or something held in the hand, the wings, etc.) to and fro.
1611Bible Lev. xiv. 21 Hee shall take one lambe for a trespasse offring to be waued [marg. for a wauing.] 1612Parkes Curtain-Drawer 47 Each Play-house aduanceth his flagge in the aire, whither quickly at the waving thereof, are summoned whole troopes of men, women and children. 1657J. Trapp Comm., Ps. lxxx. 7 As the bird by much waving gathereth wind under the wing, and mounteth higher. 1711Addison Spect. No. 159 ⁋3 He beckoned to me, and by the waving of his Hand directed me to approach the Place where he sat. 1784tr. Beckfords Vathek 88 The waving of fans was heard. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxiii, The waving of handkerchiefs was renewed. 1859Tennyson Guinevere 579 She..in the darkness o'er her fallen head, Perceived the waving of his hands that blest.
b. A signal or direction given by waving the hand, a flag, or the like. Obs.
1563P. Whitehorne Onosandro Platon. 87 The commaundements, wauinges, and signes, ought likewyse first to be geuen to the heads and leaders of men.
6. Comb.: waving-base, an observation terrace at an airport from which members of the public may watch the aircraft and wave to the travellers; † waving-engine, a machine for cutting waved indentations on wood.
1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. vi. 103 Of the Waving Engine. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 354/2 The Waving Engine..is a thing wherewith Waved Work is generally made upon small Frames for Pictures and Looking Glasses. 1954Archit. Rev. CXV. 24 Opening off this is a roof⁓garden ‘waving-base’ from which passengers' friends can watch the departure of aircraft. 1958[see jet age s.v. jet n.3 11]. 1965New Statesman 20 Aug. 261/2 Even at dreary old Heathrow you can get out on to one of the waving-bases..for free.
▪ II. waving, ppl. a.|ˈweɪvɪŋ|
[f. wave v. + -ing2.]
That waves.
1. Of water, the sea: That rises in waves; full of waves, billowy. Also of the shore (see quot. 1591).
1552Huloet, Wauynge lyke water, fluctuosus. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xi. §8 (1912) 416 As when the Sunne shines upon a waving water. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 230 The subtill race Of roving Polypes; who (to rob more) Transform them hourly on the waving shore [Fr. l'ondeux rivage]. 1717Addison tr. Ovid's Met. ii. Phaeton 9 A waving sea th' inferiour earth embrac'd. 1835R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 81 Noo Scotland's cliffs sae dear to me Aneath the wavin' waters fa'.
b. transf. of things, esp. of a crop, forest, etc.: Agitated or ruffled on the surface like the waves of the sea.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 156/2 Vestis vndans,..a wauing garment that ruffleth in going, specially when the bodye is moued or shaken. 1676Dryden Aurengz. i. 4 The Vale an Iron-Harvest seems to yield Of thick-sprung Lances in a waving Field. 1798W. L. Bowles Poems. St. Michael's Mt. 43 Mountain, no pomp of waving woods hast thou. 1846Dickens Battle of Life i. 1 The waving grass was green. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxxi, A country rich with waving fields of grain.
†2. Vacillating, wavering. Obs.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §29. 493/1 Their might..depends of the wauing humors, and wils of those inferiour vassels, of whom they thinke themselues vnresistable Commaunders. a1625F. Greville Let. to Hon. Lady iv. Wks. (1633) 282 His hollow, and wauing minde.
3. That moves to and fro at its free end by the impulse of the wind or breeze.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. vi. 1 Aduance our wauing Colours on the Walls. 1596― Tam. Shr. Induct. ii. 55 Euen as the wauing sedges play with winde. 1676Dryden Aurengz. v. 78 The waving Arms of Aureng-Zebe appear'd, Display'd with your Morat's. 1697― æneis vii. 869 With Joy they view the waving Ensigns fly. 1767Sir W. Jones Seven Fountains Poems (1777) 33 The crimson streamer's waving pride. 1829Mrs. Hemans Casabianca 22 Upon his brow he felt their breath, And in his waving hair. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes v, A forest of ships' masts, cheery with flapping sails and waving flags.
4. Undulating in form or outline.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies v. ix. 352 An azured staffe, cutte in fashion of a waving snake. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty vii. 38 The waving line, which is a line more productive of beauty than any of the former. 1810Southey Kehama i. ii, The fragrant smoke..hangeth visible on high, A dark and waving canopy. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xliv, He was a fine open-faced boy, with blue eyes and waving flaxen hair. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 462 Asplenium Filix-fœmina..Frond 1–5 ft., bright green, flaccid, waving. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 553 A single waving or cyclical line results.
5. Of sound: Undulating in tone.
1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ ix. (1878) 62 Unda Maris..a stop with two pipes, one of which is tuned a little higher than the other, producing a waving kind of tone.
b. quasi-n. (See quot.)
1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ iii. (1878) 21 Waving, is a lighter species of tremulant, for the more delicate stops.
6. Of wings: Moving rhythmically in flight.
1735Somerville Chase i. 236 Th' industrious Beagle twists his waving Tail. 1795W. Blake Song of Los ii. 34 And his shudd'ring waving wings Went enormous above the red flames. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. iii. 145 And it circles round, Like the soft waving wings of noonday dreams. 1896Conan Doyle Rodney Stone viii, I..saw the gliding lines of windows with staring faces and waving handkerchiefs.
Hence ˈwavingly adv.
1750G. Hughes Barbados 108 The extremities of the higher branches bend wavingly downwards. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 573 The sea below gleams wavingly. 1882W. James in Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb (1883) 108 Moving the hand wavingly across the forehead. |