wauch, waugh ( ch, gh guttural)

[Cf. Icel. valgr =lukewarm; A. S. wealg. ] Unpleasant to the taste or smell; nauseous, bad, worthle . wâucht, wâught ( ch, gh guttural), s. ant of quaght, itself a variant of quaf.] A large draught of any liquid. ( Scotch.) [A var i "To gie them a waught o' drink and a bannock." Scott: Old Mortality , ch. iv. wâuf, wâuff, 8. [WAVE.] A wave, a flap. "Deil a wauf of his coat-tail could I see."-Scott: Heart of Mid-Lothian, ch. li. wâuk-rife, adj. [Scotch wauk wake; -rife.] Wakeful. "Wail through the dreary midnight hour Till waukrije morn!" Burns: Elegy on Captain Henderson. them "mountains high"; they have, however, been witne ed approximately sixty feet from trough to summit in the Atlantic. When they rise into a sharp ridge, and the wind is strong, they crest over, break, and fall on the leeward side with abundant spray; but this does not occur on the ocean to the same extent as near shore. The force of waves is so great that, geologically viewed, they are a potent force in altering the conformation of coasts. When in a storm they break with transcendent force on a shore they scoop out soft shales into caves, allowing the harder rocks above in time to fall in, or they break off portions of those harder rocks themselves, besides grinding against each other any fallen slabs which may already be lying on the beach. wave-borne, a. Borne or or carried on or by the waves. wave-breast, s. Judaism: The breast of an animal which has been offered in sacrifice used as a wave-offering (q. v.). wave-length, subst . The distance between the crests of two adjacent waves, or between the lowest parts of the depre ions on each side of a wave. wave-line principle, s . Ship-build.: The principle of building ships with contours scientifically adapted to the curves of the sea-waves they have to traverse. It was introduced [From the sound made.] To cry by Mr. Scott Ru ell in consequence of experiments wâul (1), v. i. as a cat; to squall. wâul (2), v. i. [WAWL (2).] wâur, a. [See def.] Worse. ( Scotch.] ""Vanity and waur ! ' said the Dominie."- Scott : Guy Manner ing, ch. v. wâur, v. t. [WAUR, a.] To overcome, to worst. ( Scotch.) "Was like to be waured afore the se ion for want of a paper."-Scott: Antiquity , ch. ix. wâu-rě-găn, a. [American Indian wunnegan = fine, gaudy. Gaudy, showy, flashy. ( U. S. Colloq.) wave, s. [WAVE, v.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. "He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and to ed." James i. 6. 2. Anything resembling a wave in character or appearance; as (1) One of a series of undulating inequalities on a surface; an undulation; a swelling outline. "Without whose numberle waves or curls, which usually arise from the sand-holes a little smoothed in polishing with putty."-Newton. (2) The undulating streak or line of luster on cloth, watered and calendered. (3) Anything which advances and recedes, rises and falls, comes and goes, or increases and diminishes with some degree of regular recurrence, like a wave; as, a wave of prejudice, a wave of popular ity, . 3. Water. ( Poetical .) "By the salt wave of the Mediterranean." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, v. 1. *4. A throng of people borne along together. (Shakesp.: Cymbeline, v. 3.) 5. A waving or undulating motion; a signal made by waving the hand, a flag, or the like. II. Physics: An undulation; a movement which, though it seems progre ive, is in reality only up and down, or, to a certain extent to and fro though each succe ive point the otherwise similar motion of a single particle takes place a little later in time the time which it takes for the motion to be communicated from the preceding moving particle. Waves exist in water, in air (sound-waves), in ether (light-waves), . [SOUND, UNDULATORY-THEORY.] A wave upon the open ocean alternately rises into a ridge and sinks into a depre ion (the trough of the sea). Anything floating, say a quantity of sarga o sea-weed, rises on a billow and sinks again as the wave falls, without otherwise changing its place. Even the undulatory movement affects the water only to a few feet in depth, where, unle there are submarine currents, all is still. When a wave comes inshore and enters a narrow gulf, it becomes affected both by the return of the reflex waves from its sides and the friction of the bottom, if the water be shallow, so that instead of a movement mainly up and down, it now becomes progre ive, and breaks in a series of billows on the sands or rocks. In the former case the water runs up the sand, and then recedes considerably before the next wave comes in. Sea waves are mainly caused by the wind. If a breeze blowing off the shore cause ripples near the land, these will rise higher the farther they are from the shore if the cause which brought them into being continues to operate. Out on the open ocean they rise to some feet in elevation, but it is a great exaggeration to call to by the fact made by him in 1834. The principle is now generally adopted.