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verb

Waver v. i. (past & past part. wavered; pres. part. wavering)

To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter. "With banners and pennons wavering with the wind." "Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities."

To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment. "Let us hold fast... without wavering." "In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols."

Synonyms: To reel; totter; vacillate. See Fluctuate.

noun

Waver n. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. (Prov. Eng.)

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"Waver" Quotes from Famous Books

... thoughts, my dear marquis, of paying a visit to your court, to your lady, and to your friends this winter, but waver on account of an expedition into Canada, friendship induces me to tell you, that I do not conceive that the prospect of such an operation is so favourable at this time, as to cause you to change your views. Many circumstances and events must conspire to render an enterprise of this kind practicable ...

— Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette • Lafayette

... with a wide yaw to starboard which the rudder was powerless to check, swooped down sidewise into the hollow, rolling heavily to port and pointing her boom high up into the gale. When I saw the dark outline of the leech of the mainsail waver for an instant, flap once or twice, and then suddenly collapse, I knew what was coming, and shouting at the top of my voice, "Look out Heck! She'll jibe!" I instinctively threw myself into the bottom of the boat to escape the boom. With a quick, sudden rush, ending in a great ...

— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... Miss Hollyhock? Why, lassie, you look pale. Your eyes waver. I don't like ye to look so white in the complexion. What may ye be wantin' wi' me, ...

— Hollyhock - A Spirit of Mischief • L. T. Meade

... not rest. Again he fell into a dream. This time the picture was very real. The big balloon had been finished and launched. A thrill ran through him as he felt the monster craft poise and waver and then slowly rise above the corral. He could hear the cheers of those gathered about. But in the midst of them be heard the sudden crack of a revolver. Jack Jellup had put a bullet through the silken bulk of the bag. The cold perspiration broke ...

— The Air Ship Boys • H.L. Sayler

... date are lost in obscurity. Even of "orthodox" theologians few, with any claims to scholarship, now hold that these Gospels, as they stand, were written by the persons whose names they bear. They wander and waver in a thick fog. See Milman's "History of Christianity," vol. ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

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