(intransitive) To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
(dated, intransitive) To move without purpose or a specified destination; to roam, to wander.
(archaic, intransitive) To sway back and forth, as if about to fall; to reel, to stagger, to totter.
(figuratively, intransitive) To begin to weaken or show signs of weakening in resolve; to falter, to flinch, to give way.
(figuratively, intransitive) To feel or show doubt or indecision; to be indecisive between choices; to vacillate.
(figuratively, intransitive) Of a body part such as an eye or hand, or the voice: to become unsteady; to shake, to tremble.
(figuratively, intransitive) Of light, shadow, or a partly obscured thing: to flicker, to glimmer, to quiver.
(figuratively, intransitive) Chiefly of a quality or thing: to change, to fluctuate, to vary.
(intransitive, obsolete) Followed by from: to deviate from a course; to stray, to wander.
(figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) Of the wits: to become confused or unsteady; to reel.
(obsolete, transitive) To cause (someone or something) to move back and forth.
(obsolete, transitive) To cause (someone) to begin to or show signs of weakening in resolve; also (rare), to weaken in resolve due to (something).

An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
(figuratively) A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
(figuratively) A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.

One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
A tool used to make hair wavy.
(historical) In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
(obsolete) Synonym of waverer (“one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator”).

A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.

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