Wave offerings

Parts of peace-offerings were so called, because they were waved by the priests (Exodus 29:24, 26, 27; Leviticus 7:20-34; 8:27; 9:21; 10:14, 15, etc.), in token of a solemn special presentation to God. They then became the property of the priests. The first-fruits, a sheaf of barley, offered at the feast of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:17-20), and wheat-bread, the first-fruits of the second harvest, offered at the Passover (10-14), were wave-offerings.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) See Waive.

2. (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.

3. (v. i.) To be moved to and fro as a signal.

4. (v. i.) To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.

5. (v. t.) To move one way and the other; to brandish.

6. (v. t.) To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.

7. (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.

8. (v. t.) To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.

9. (n.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.

10. (n.) A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.

11. (v. i.) Water; a body of water.

12. (v. i.) Unevenness; inequality of surface.

13. (n.) A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.

14. (n.) The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.

15. (v. i.) Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.

16. (n.) Woe.