Wave, subst. a swell of water raised above the level, a billow: Ven. 819. Lucr. 1438. Sonn. 60, 1. Tp. I, 2, 205. Tp. I, 2, 205 II, 1, 118. Tw. I, 2, 16. III, 4, 419. V, 236. Wint. IV, 4, 141. H6C I, 4, 21. II, 6, 36. V, 4, 24. V, 4, 24 Tit. III, 1, 95. Caes. I, 2, 114. Mcb. IV, 1, 53. Per. II Prol. 34. IV, 1, 60. Figuratively, a throng of people borne along together: Cymb. V, 3, 48.
In the poetical style, == water: “like a dive-dapper peering through a w.” Ven. 86. “spread o'er the silver --s thy golden hairs,” Err. III, 2, 48. In Armado's language even in prose: “by the salt w. of the Mediter-raneum,” LLL V, 1, 61.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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