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  • English Word Waver Definition To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
  • English Word Waver Definition A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
  • English Word Wavered Definition of Waver
  • English Word Waverer Definition One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like.
  • English Word Wavering Definition of Waver
  • English Word Waveringly Definition In a wavering manner.
  • English Word Waveringness Definition The quality or state of wavering.
  • English Word Waveson Definition Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
  • English Word Waveworn Definition Worn by the waves.
  • English Word Wavey Definition The snow goose.
  • English Word Waviness Definition The quality or state of being wavy.
  • English Word Waving Definition of Wave
  • English Word Wavure Definition See Waivure.
  • English Word Wavy Definition Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
  • English Word Wavy Definition Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.
  • English Word Wavy Definition Undulating on the border or surface; waved.
  • English Word Wawaskeesh Definition The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.
  • English Word Wawe Definition A wave.
  • English Word Wawl Definition See Waul.
  • English Word Wax Definition To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
  • English Word Wax Definition To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
  • English Word Wax Definition A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
  • English Word Wax Definition Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
  • English Word Wax Definition Cerumen, or earwax.
  • English Word Wax Definition A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
  • English Word Wax Definition A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
  • English Word Wax Definition A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
  • English Word Wax Definition A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
  • English Word Wax Definition A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
  • English Word Wax Definition Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.