To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
Flowers wavered in the breeze.
To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
[T]here vvere tvvo Channels, one on the North, another on the South, vvhere through the fiſher-men did vvander and vvauer vp to Norvvitch, and diuers parts of Suffolke and Norfolke, […]
To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
[…] Oza for puttyng his hande to the holy ſhryne⸝ that vvas called Archa federis [the Ark of the Covenant]⸝ whan it was broughte by kyng Dauid frõ [from] the citie of Baba [i.e., Ba'alah or Kiriath-Jearim]⸝ though it were wauerynge and in daunger to fall⸝ yet was he ſtryken of god⸝ and fell deed [dead] immediately.
An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
No a bit butterflee on its silent waver, meeting the murmur of the straightforward bee.
One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.
A river in northern Cumbria, England, which flows into the Solway Firth.
The verb is derived from Middle English waveren (“to move back and forth, swing; to move unsteadily, totter; to shake, tremble; to wander; (figurative) to be changeable or unstable; to deviate”), and ...
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A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.
It is a very ordinary Copſe vvhich vvill not afford three or four Firſts, that is, Beſts; fourteen Seconds; tvvelve Thirds; eight VVavers, &c. according to vvhich proportions the ſizes of young Trees in Copſing are to ſucceed one another.