Wave, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved p. pr. & vb. n. Waving.]
  1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
     His purple robes waved careless to the winds.   --Trumbull.
     Where the flags of three nations has successively waved.   --Hawthorne.
  2. To be moved to and fro as a signal.
  3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.  [Obs.]
     He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm.   --Shak.
  waving
       adj : streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current
             of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her";
             "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze" [syn: aflare,
              flaring, flying]
       n : the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: wave,
            wafture]