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Waved. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Waved ppl. a. [f. WAVE v. + -ED1.]

1   1.  Having the form of waves, presenting a wavy outline or appearance, undulating, undulated.

2   a.  gen.

3 1599.  Hakluyt, Voy., II. II. 86. In the hole is laied good store of wood, whereon is raised gallantly a waued roofe.

4 1605.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. IV. Captains, 114. A large Cave,… Whose waved Seeling,… The Nymphs … rarely had imbost With Pearls and Rubies.

5 1768.  Boswell, Corsica, i. (ed. 2), 25. A rich waved country … reaches along the east and south coasts to Bonifaccio.

6 1808.  Eleanor Sleath, Bristol Heiress, I. 61. This surface … is gently waved, rising with a varied swell from a small hollow, or valley.

7 1863.  Illustr. Lond. News, 1 Aug., 116/4, Advt. Crinoline.—The Patent Ondina, or Waved Jupon, does away with the unsightly results of the ordinary hoops.

8 1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., Waved Wheel. The edge of the wheel is waved or convoluted so that as it revolves it imparts a lateral oscillation to an arm, pitman, or what not.

9 1890.  Hessels, Corpus Gloss., Introd. p. xi. [The letter] l, with a waved stroke through it, indicates uel.

10   b.  of hair, etc.

11 1863.  ‘Holme Lee,’ A. Warleigh, III. 58. Her hat in her lap, and her waved brown hair uncovered.

12 1884.  McLaren, Spinning (ed. 2), 6. Take some hairs and some fibres of South Down wool and hold them together. The hair will hang straight and smooth, the wool will be curly, something like a corkscrew, and will have a waved appearance.

13 1913.  Play Pictorial, No. 138, p. vi/2. The waved hair is drawn smoothly back from the forehead.

14   c.  Her. UNDEE, WAVÉ, WAVY.

15 1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, II. iii. 44. Or these [Lines] some are Waued.

16 1680.  Sir G. Mackenzie, Sci. Her., 26. Waved is so call’d, from the waves of the Sea, which it represents, and is therefore called undé, and is used for signifying that the Bearer got his Arms for service done at sea. Ibid., 44. A cross waved. Crux undosa.

17 1704.  J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Waved or Wavy.

18   d.  Of a sword, dagger, etc.: Having the edge undulated. Also in Her.

19 1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. xviii. (Roxb.), 126/1. He beareth Azure, a waved sword, or a sword waved, or wavey.

20 1780.  Edmondson, Heraldry, II. Gloss., Waved Sword, by some erroneously called a flaming sword.

21 1855.  trans. Labarte’s Arts Mid. Ages, p. xxxv. Malay knife…, blade waved.

22   2.  Having undulated markings. Of silk, etc. = WATERED. Also in comb. † waved-wise adv.

23 1547.  in Feuillerat, Revels Edw. VI. (1914), 14. Gardyd abowtes with clothe of golde wavyd wyse.

24 1601.  Holland, Pliny, VIII. xlviii. I. 228. The waved water chamelot was from the beginning esteemed the richest and bravest wearing.

25 1667.  Milton, P. L., VII. 406. Fish … through Groves Of Coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the Sun thir wav’d coats dropt with Gold.

26 1711.  Fr. Bk. of Rates, 378. Camblets, watered and not watered, waved, and not waved.

27   3.  Bot., Zool., and Min. Undulate; having a wavy form or texture; having wavy markings.

28 1664.  Power, Exp. Philos., I. 6. The Gray, or Horse-Fly. Her eye is … of a semisphæroidal figure; black and waved.

29 1776.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., Expl. Terms 379. Flexuosus, waved, bent backwards and forwards from Bud to Bud.

30 1796.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 673. Leaves … waved at the edge.

31 1822.  J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 187. The hinge … without tooth, waved and rather sinuous and unequal.

32 1841.  Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), II. 277. The sepals and petals are very linear and waved.

33 1843.  Humble, Dict. Geol., etc. (ed. 2), Waved,… In botany, applied to the margins of leaves, when bordered alternately with numerous minute segments of circles and angles. In entomology, applied to insects when the margin of the body is marked with a succession of arched incisions.

34 1845.  A. Gray, Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 2), 112. A slightly waved or sinuous margin is said to be repand.

35 1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 276. Lobes of lower lip subequal, waved and toothed.

36   b.  In specific names of animals, plants, etc.

37 1668.  Charleton, Onomast., 130. Raia Vndulala … the waved Scate.

38 1681.  Grew, Musæum, I. § vi. ii. 147. The Great Waved-Muscle … is commonly found in the Red-Sea.

39 1822.  Hortus Anglicus, II. 397. Aster Undulatus. Waved Star Wort.

40 1824.  R. K. Greville, Flora Edin., 20. Aira flexuosa … Waved Hair-grass.

41 1832.  J. Rennie, Consp. Butterfl. & Moths, 139. The Waved Carpet (Emmelesia sylvata, Stephens).

42   Comb.  1796.  Marshall, Planting, II. 66. The Curled Cistus, or Waved-leaved Rock Rose.

43   4.  Moved in waves.

44 1820.  Shelley, Prometh. Unb., IV. 187. ’Tis the deep music of the rolling world Kindling within the strings of the waved air Æolian modulations.

45   5.  Held aloft and moved to and fro.

46 1883.  Miss Broughton, Belinda, I. iii. A burly middle-aged figure gesticulating with raised arms and waved umbrella in mid-road.

47 1891.  F. Tennyson, Daphne, 3. Beeches swung their heads Before the waved banners of the winds.

48 1916.  Bayfield, trans. Ovid’s Met., XI. in 19th Cent., May, 1013.                                And she Raised her wet eyes, and was the first to see Her lord standing upon the back-curved stern, Who with waved hand made signal, and her own She waved in answer.

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