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Word Meanings - WAVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. Ld. Berners. Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers

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1. 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. Ld. Berners. Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities. Sir W. Scott. 2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment. Let us hold fast . . . without wavering. Heb. x. 23. In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols. Milton. Syn. -- To reel; totter; vacillate. See Fluctuate.

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    good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
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    To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
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    Flattering; obsequious. -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv.
  • ASSENTER
    One who assents.
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    One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
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    Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
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  • GLIMMERING
    1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
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    One who decides.
  • DECIDEMENT
    Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
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    One who flinches or fails.
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    That may be demurred to. Stormonth.
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    In a flickering state.
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