wave motion

Motion in curves alternately concave and convex, like that of the waves of the sea; undulatory motion. wave-offering, s. Judaism: Heb. tenuphah =agitation, tumult, a wave-offering, from nuph =to agitate, to wave. An offering which is believed by the Rabbis to have been waved to the four points of the compa , "be- fore the Lord," as an acknowledgment of his sov- ereignty over the earth. It is often combined with the similar heave-offering, believed to have been waved upward as an acknowledgment of his rule over heaven. It is connected also with the peace- offering, of which it, as a rule, constituted a part. When an animal was presented in sacrifice, the shoulder was often offered as a heave-offering and the breast as wave-offering. [WAVE-BREAST.] Both afterward became the perquisites of the priests. On the second day of the Pa over a sheaf was waved. At Pentecost two lambs of the first year were to be offered as a peace-offering, and both were to be waved (Lev. x. 14, xxiii. 11-15, 20; Numb. vi. 20, xviii. 11.) "And waved them for a wave - offering before the Lord." IMG:content-0726.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: Convolvulus , or Calystegia sepium , and Con volvulus arvensis . ( Britten & Holland .) wave-worn, a. Worn by the waves. "The wave - worn horns of the echoing bank." Tennyson: Dying Swan, 39.