Waver /(?)/

Wa·ver

Waver

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Wavered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wavering

  1. To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
    With banners and pennons wavering with the wind.
    — Ld. Berners.
    Thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as a terror to all evil speakers against dignities.
  2. To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
    Let us hold fast . . . without wavering.
    — Heb. x. 23.
    In feeble hearts, propense enough before To waver, or fall off and join with idols.

Waver

n.
  1. A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.]