intransitive. To be lame, walk lame, limp. archaic.

intransitive. To bend, flinch, give way; to waver, vacillate. Obsolete.

Of persons, their sentiments, etc.: To exhibit doubt or indecision; to change or vary; to fluctuate or vacillate (between); to falter in resolution…

figurative. Of a person: To waver, vacillate. Obsolete.

figurative. To waver, vacillate. Obsolete.

intransitive. To turn away or be deflected from a (right) course of action, a line of conduct, an opinion, etc.; †to waver, vacillate.

intransitive. To waver.

figurative. To waver, to hesitate mentally in a state of indecision. Obsolete.

Phrases. to be of (occasionally in) many (also †divers) minds: to waver in purpose, to be indecisive. to be in (also of,occasionally on) two minds…

Of a person: To be restless in mind; to alternate between different opinions or courses of action; to vacillate, waver. Said also of the mind, will…

figurative. To begin to doubt or waver in an argument, opinion, or purpose; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate or waver at. Now rare.

in the wind. to hang in the wind: to remain in suspense or indecision.

to waver as, like, with the wind. Cf. 3b.

intransitive. To stammer, mutter; to vacillate, waver, be undecided.

figurative. To vacillate. rare.

intransitive. To go this way and that way in one's speech or action; to be off and on; to parley, palter, haggle about terms. Obsolete.

To be unwilling, hesitate; = argh, v.

absol. To suspend one's judgement, to be in doubt; hence occasionally (with simple object or object clause) to doubt; also, to apprehend, suspect. Obs…

To move unsteadily to and fro like an object on the surface of a liquid; to oscillate, undulate; figurative to vacillate, waver. Obsolete.

intransitive. To move unsteadily or heavily from side to side or up and down; to sway without control. transferred and figurative. To sway; †to…

To continue in a state of suspense or indecision; to waver as in an indeterminate or irresolute state; hence, to hang or remain on the verge of (a…

intransitive. To hold back in doubt or indecision; to show, or speak with, indecision; to find difficulty in deciding; to scruple. Const. various…

To alternate or waver between different opinions or courses of action.

figurative. (Now chiefly without allusion to the literal sense.) Of persons: To pass to and fro, from one opinion, sentiment, or course of conduct…

intransitive. To hesitate; to delay or suspend action; to pause in uncertainty. Obsolete.

intransitive. To waver, deliberate, hesitate. Cf. 1.

In the first person, used in questions to which the expected answer is a command, direction, or… to stand shall I, shall I (later shill I, shall I…

In the first person, used in questions to which the expected answer is a command, direction, or… to stand shall I, shall I (later shill I, shall I…

to stand shill I, shall I: to vacillate, to be irresolute or undecided. Also to go shill-I shall-I, to stand at shilly-shally.

to stand shill I, shall I: to vacillate, to be irresolute or undecided. Also to go shill-I shall-I, to stand at shilly-shally.

to act, to keep (upon), the volant, to hover between two parties, sides, or opinions. Obsolete.

intransitive. To blow in puffs or slight gusts; hence, to veer or shift about (of the wind; hence, of a ship). Often figurative or in figurative…

intransitive. To act with trifling vacillation or indecision; to go on dallying with a thing without advancing; to loiter in vacillation, to trifle.

Phrases. to be of (occasionally in) many (also †divers) minds: to waver in purpose, to be indecisive. to be in (also of,occasionally on) two minds…

intransitive. To alternate between two states, opinions, principles, purposes, etc.; to vary or fluctuate alternately between two limits.

intransitive. To vacillate, be irresolute or undecided.

figurative. To remain or hang on in a state of irresolution; to vacillate, equivocate, waver; be irregular in one's ways. Also, to have relapses…

To oscillate or waver between one thing and another.

intransitive. To proceed in a humdrum, monotonous, or undecided fashion. Also to humdrum it.

figurative. To waver, vacillate; to change from one condition or position to the opposite (esp. in figurative phrases with pendulum as subject: see…

Phrases: chiefly U.S. (to standor sit) onor upon the fence: (to be) undecided in opinion, or neutral in action. (to be) on a person's, the other si…

to back and fill (see fill, v. 4c 4d), to go backward and forward. Also transferred and figurative. U.S.

intransitive. Chiefly British (originally Scottish). To behave indecisively or hesitantly; to vacillate between opinions or courses of action; to…

intransitive. To hesitate or waver between different opinions or courses of action; to vacillate, exhibit uncertainty.

To work or move in a lazy fashion; to be undecided in plan or action; to vacillate, delay.

intransitive. To dither, vacillate, hesitate. Also with about, around.

to be on the weigh-scales: to be undecided.

To waver; to vacillate or equivocate; to ‘dither’. Originally Scottish and northern dialect. Now colloquial or nonstandard.

To call (a fact, circumstance, or other consideration) to mind. intransitive. to think twice: (a) to give particularly careful consideration to…

intransitive. Also figurative, esp. in to teeter on the brink and variant.

intransitive. Originally chiefly dialect, to tremble, quake, quiver, thrill. Now also in general colloquial use: to vacillate, to act indecisively…

intransitive. To wander in a vague manner; to waver.

transitive and intransitive. In the poetry of W. B. Yeats, or with allusion to it: to spin, revolve; to move with a winding or spiral motion.