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Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. [Obs.] Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. Shak.

es; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Longfellow. Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which passes in and out of the lungs in ordinary breathing. It varies from twenty to thirty…

Tide day, the interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one another. A retardation from this cause is called the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence…

Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream. "Waves of torrent fire." Milton.

To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. We being exceedingly tossed with a tempeat. Act xxvii. 18.

To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Dryden.

To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple. [Colloq.]

In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak.

A concurrence of three waves. [Obs.] "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.

Faitless; false; treacherous. Thrall to the faithless waves and trothless sky. Fairfax.

sually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.

Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge. Thy so true, So faithful, love unequaled. Milton. Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie. Herbert.…

Rising and falling in waves toward the margin, as a leaf; waved.

The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

Moving like waves; undulatory. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate. Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated. Holder.

Resembling, or in the nature of, waves; having a wavy surface; undulatory.

Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground. -- Un"du*la`ting*ly. adv.

ith no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.

Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves. Undulatory theory, or Wave theory (of light) (Opt.), that theory which regards its various phenomena as due to…