Word Meanings - WAFTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• WAVESON
  Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
• WAFTURE
  The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft. R. Browning. An angry wafture of your hand. Shak.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• WAVED
  Having undulations like waves; -- said of one of the lines in heraldry which serve as outlines to the ordinaries, etc. (more info) 1. Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge. 2. Having a wavelike
• WAVY
  Undulating on the border or surface; waved. (more info) 1. Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves. "The wavy seas." Chapman. 2. Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. Prior.
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• WAVINESS
  The quality or state of being wavy.
• WAVELET
  A little wave; a ripple.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• BROWNWORT
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• BROWNISM
  The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists. Milton.
• BROWNY
  Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
• BROWNIAN
  Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• IMBROWN
  To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.