waving

waving
    n 1: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn:
         {wave}, {waving}, {wafture}]
    

Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Waving}.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to
   wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to
   be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[=a]fa
   to vibrate. Cf. {Waft}, {Waver}.]
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   1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the
      other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
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            His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
                                                  --Trumbull.
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            Where the flags of three nations has successively
            waved.                                --Hawthorne.
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   2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson.
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   3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to
      vacillate. [Obs.]
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            He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
            good nor harm.                        --Shak.
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42 Moby Thesaurus words for "waving":
      ambages, anfractuosity, brandish, brandishing, circuitousness,
      circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution,
      convolution, crinkle, crinkling, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity,
      flexuousness, flourish, flourishing, intorsion, involution,
      meander, meandering, rivulation, shaking, sinuation, sinuosity,
      sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity,
      tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulant, undulating, undulation,
      undulatory, wave, wave motion, winding