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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ambages, anfractuosity, brandish, brandishing, circuitousness, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, flaunt, flaunting, flexuosity, flexuousness, flourish, flourishing, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, rivulation, shaking, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turning, twisting, undulant, undulating, undulation, undulatory, wave, wave motion, winding
Dictionary Results for waving:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
waving
    n 1: the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn:
         wave, waving, wafture]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wave \Wave\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waved; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Waving.] [OE. waven, AS. wafian to waver, to hesitate, to
   wonder; akin to w[ae]fre wavering, restless, MHG. wabern to
   be in motion, Icel. vafra to hover about; cf. Icel. v[=a]fa
   to vibrate. Cf. Waft, Waver.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the
      other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
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            His purple robes waved careless to the winds.
                                                  --Trumbull.
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            Where the flags of three nations has successively
            waved.                                --Hawthorne.
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   2. To be moved to and fro as a signal. --B. Jonson.
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   3. To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to
      vacillate. [Obs.]
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            He waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither
            good nor harm.                        --Shak.
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