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To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
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(RQ:Froissart Berners Cronycles)&11805; in lyke wiſe ſo were the engliſſhmen&11805; and eche parte thought to fyght&11805; for euery day they ſhewed them ſelfe in the felde&11805; with baners and penons waueryng with the wynde&11805; it was great pleaſure to behold thẽ (quote-gloss).
(quote-book) VII|title=and Pauper|Diues and Pauper|location=London|publisher=(...) Berthelet|Thomas Bertheleti(nb...)|year_published=1536|section=folio 313, recto|sectionurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfpiAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA313|oclc=1203235241|passage=Lord (ſayth he) Put them as a wheele and a ſtoble before the face of the wynde. For as the ſtoble, whyle the wynde bloweth wauereth and flyethe aboue in the ayre, nowe hygh nowe lowe, but anone as the wynde paſſeth it falleth adowne to the erthe and lyeth there ſtylle.
(RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke)
(RQ:Erasmus Newe Testamente)
(RQ:Guillim Heraldrie) IV. Chap(quote-gloss) XIII.|page=224|passage=Theſe ''Penoncels'' are made of certain ſmal peeces of ''Taffeta'' or ''Sarcinet'', cut after the forme of a ''Pennon'', vvherevvith ''Martiall men'' doe oftentimes adorne their ''Speares'' and ''Launces'', vvhich albeit of themſelues they be things of no moment, yet doe they very often (like as alſo ''Banners'' doe) aſtoniſh the Enemie through their continuall motion, foraſmuch as they are euermore vvafting and vvauering in the vvinde, vvhereby they doe ſo occupy the enemies eie as that it breedeth a terrour in the minde of their foes, (..)
(RQ:Thomson Winter)
(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 2)
(RQ:Scott Ivanhoe)
(RQ:Tennyson Princess)
To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
(RQ:Nashe Lenten Stuffe)
(RQ:Galsworthy White Monkey)
To sway and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
(RQ:Elyot Governour) Oza for puttyng his hande to the holy ſhryne&11805; that vvas called ''Archa federis'' (quote-gloss)&11805; whan it was broughte by kyng Dauid frõ (quote-gloss) the citie of Baba (quote-gloss)&11805; though it were wauerynge and in daunger to fall&11805; yet was he ſtryken of in Christianity|god&11805; and fell deed (quote-gloss) immediately.
(RQ:Ray Wisdom) made of griſtly Spokes or Rays connected by Membranes, ſo that they may be contracted or extended like VVomens Fans, and furniſhed vvith Muſcles for motion, ſerve partly for progreſſion, but chiefly to hold the Body upright; vvhich appears in that vvhen they are cut off, it vvavers to and fro, and ſo ſoon as the Fiſh dies, the Belly turns upvvard.
(RQ:Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin)
To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to way.
(RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke), to thentent to ſhewe hymſelfe valiante and not willyng to breake hys othe, neither to wauer frõ (quote-gloss) hys allegeance, boſted that he would rather dye in the defence then frely yeld the caſtle.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) R. Robinson, for T. Gubbin, and Iohn Porter|page=245|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-treatise-whether-a_perkins-william_1589/page/245/mode/1up|oclc=1203314417|passage=Heerein thou vvauereſt and doubteſt.
(RQ:Cumberland Posthumous Works)
(RQ:Froude England)
(quote-book)|chapter=The Code Duello|title=The Farm and the Fireside: Sketches of Domestic Life in War and in Peace.(nb...)|location=Atlanta, Ga.|publisher=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|The Constitution Publishing Company|page=257|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/farmfiresidesket01arpb/page/257/mode/1up|oclc=8683859|passage=The philosophers declared that there was a mysterious connection between honor and courage and between courage and the nervous system, and that when a man was in the wrong his courage wavered, and his nerves became unsteady, and so he couldn't fight to advantage and was easily overcome by his adversary.
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(RQ:Guardian)'s faith in (w) wavers.
To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
(RQ:Milton Divorce) I ſhall not much vvaver to affirm that thoſe vvords vvhich are made to intimate, as if they forbad all divorce but for adultery (..) thoſe vvords tak'n circumſcriptly, (..) are as much againſt plain equity, and the mercy of religion, (..)
(RQ:Bunyan Works)
Of a part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
(RQ:Dickens Old Curiosity Shop)
(RQ:Kipling Departmental Ditties)
Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
(RQ:Boyle Colours)
(RQ:Whewell Inductive Sciences)|footer=A figurative use.
(RQ:Tennyson Poems 1842)
Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
(RQ:Dickens Pickwick Papers)
(RQ:Dickens Haunted House)
''Followed by'' from: to deviate from a course; to stray, to wander.
(quote-book) 10. Challenge of Cattell.|translator=Skene, Lord Curriehill|John Skene|title=Majestatem|Regiam Majestatem. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland,(nb...)|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) Thomas Finlason|section=folio 78, recto|sectionurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_regiam-majestatem_skene-sir-john_1609/page/n162/mode/1up|oclc=973704739|passage=And gif it be ane beaſt, ane buke being placed betvvix the hornes of the beaſt, or vpon his forehead, and he and his vvitnes, at the leaſt tvva, ſall ſvveare that, that beaſt did vvaver avvay from him, as he affirmed in his clame; and that he vvas not given, nor ſauld be him to any man, in any maner of vvay.|translation=And if it be one beast, one book being placed betwixt the horns of the beast, or upon his forehead, and he and his witness, at the least two, shall swear that, the beast did waver away from him, as he affirmed in the claim; and that he was not given, nor sold by him to any man, in any manner of way.|termlang=en|brackets=on
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
To cause (someone or something) to move back and forth.
(RQ:Hakluyt Principall Navigations) Agreed vpon by the Captaines and Maisters to be Obserued by the Fleet of Sir Humfrey Gilbert.|page=683|passage=If the Admirall ſhall happen to hull in the night: then to make a wauering light ouer his other light, wauering the light vpon a pole.
(RQ:Nashe Unfortunate Traveller)
To cause (someone) to begin to or show signs of weakening in resolve; also , to weaken in resolve due to (something).
(RQ:Drayton Mortimeriados)
An act of moving and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
(quote-journal)|volume=XX|issue=CXIV|page=90|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi20edinuoft/page/90/mode/1up|oclc=1781863|passage=No a bit butterflee on its silent waver, meeting the murmur of the straightforward bee.
(RQ:Merrick Love Flies)
A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
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A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
(RQ:E. Wood Mildred Arkell)
One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
(RQ:Twain Innocents Abroad)
''In full'' waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a press with a and forthAdjective|back and forth, waving motion.
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(RQ:Waterhouse Fire)
A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.
(RQ:Evelyn Sylva)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) B. M‘Millan,(nb...); sold by Nicol (bookseller)|George and William Nicol,(nb...)|volume=II|section=section I (Copse Woods)|page=232|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBMAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA232|oclc=1874604|passage=In some parts of this County, considerable pains seem to be taken in the use of the Falling Axe(nb..), to form the stools or stumps left in the ground in Spring Woods, rather round at top, to shoot off the wet and preserve the butt from decay, where young shoots or wavers are expected from them: (..) the sooner the young waver, or wavers especially, if more than one are left for Trees, attaches itself to and entirely depends on ''one'' of the healthy lateral roots(nb..), by the entire decay of the core or centre, the better is the future prospect of such wavers, as to making good Trees, (..)