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To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains, ruin my mind South. His sufferings, nay the revolutions of his fate, had not in the least unhinged his mind. Walpole.

n. Spenser. One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God. Milton. A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope.

to uplift a rock. Cowper. Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. Milton.

To press hard upon; to follow closely Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. Pope.

The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.

To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. [A spheroid] is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley.

Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.

The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.

Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. Hawthorne.

A streak or wave of different color, appearing in wood, and in marble and other stones; variegation.

To to White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars. Pope.

To pass from one state to another; to waver; to fluctuate; as, a man vibrates between two opinions.

A wave. [Obs.] Spenser.

To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.] But soft: who wafts us yonder Shak.

The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft. R. Browning. An angry wafture of your hand. Shak.

used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc. Picus bore a buckler in his hand; His other waved a long divining wand. Dryden. Wand of peace (Scots Law), a wand, or staff, carried by the messenger of a court, which he breaks when deforced (that is, hindered from executing process), as a symbol of the deforcement, and pr…

iar]. Chaucer. [She] her unadorned golden tresses wore Disheveled, but in wanton ringlets waved. Milton. How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise! Addison.

Forces; army. [Poetic] On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war. Milton.

To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. A pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind. Milton.