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To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.

A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.

Waving or wavy; -- applied to ordinaries, or division lines.

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.

A wavy appearance or outline; waviness. Evelyn.

ed with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.

Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate. Vermiculated work, or Vermicular work (Arch.), rustic work so wrought as to have the appearance of convoluted worms, or of having been eaten into by, or covered with tracks of, worms. Gwilt.

A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.

aving for each finger key a pair of pipes, of which one is tuned slightly sharp to give a wavy effect to their joint tone.

To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel. A gentle wafting to immortal life. Milton. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. Pope.…

A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.

Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

The quality or state of being wavy.