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theological, consisting of Sermons, Discourses, Essays, and 
Controversial Tracts, &c. His scheme of theology was 
undoubtedly that which is usually called orthodoxy, and, to 
say the least of it, approaching to Calvinism. His temper, 
however, was kind and gentle, and his moderation was in¬ 
creasing as he advanced in years, and the maturity of his 
judgment restrained and controlled the fervour of his feelings 
and passions. The printed Works of Dr. Watts, together 
with those which were left in M.S. for the revision of Dr. 
Jennings and Dr. Doddridge, were published collectively by 
Dr. Gibbons, in 6 vols. 4to. 1754. Gen. Biog. 
WATT’S ISLAND, a small island in the Chesapeak. 
Lat. 37. 54. N. long. 76. 3. W. 
WATTSBOROUGH, a post village of the United States, 
in Lunenburg county, Virginia. 
WATTSNESS, a cape on the west coast of the Island of 
Shetland. Lat. 60. 19. N. long. 2. 6. W. 
WATWEILER, a town of France, department of the Up¬ 
per Rhine. Population 1300. 
WATZENBORN, a village of Germany, in Hesse-Darm- 
stadt. Population 800. 
WATZMAN, a lofty mountain of the Bavarian states, 
belonging to the Noric Alps, and rising to the height of 9650 
feet. 
WAUCHOPE, a small river of Scotland, in Dumfries¬ 
shire, in the parish of Langholm, which is augmented by the 
Laggan burn ; and, after a course of some miles, falls into 
the Esk at Langholm. 
WAUCHOPEDALE, a name given to the district of 
Dumfriesshire, in Scotland, through which the Wauchope 
runs. 
WAUDBY, a hamlet of England, in the East Riding of 
Yorkshire. 
WAUFGONG, a town of Hindostan, province of Aurun- 
gabad, from whence the family of the celebrated Mahratta 
chief, Holkar, originated; 24 miles north of Poona. 
WAUGHSBURG, a post village of the United States, in 
Stokes county, North Carolina. 
WAUGUR, an extensive district of Hindostan, province 
of Gujerat, tributary to the Guicowar. Its principal towns 
are Doongerpore, Banswara, and Gullicote. It is intersected 
by the Mahy river. 
WAUJPORE, a town of Hindostan, province of Gujerat; 
45 miles from Surat. Lat. 21. 24. N. long. 73. 47. E. 
WAUSSIM, a town of Hindostan, province of Berar, and 
capital of a small district of the same name, which is inter¬ 
sected by the Payn Ganga, a small river which falls into the 
Wurdah. Lat. 20. 10. N. long. 77. 28. E. 
WAVE, s. [paege, Saxon; waegh, Dutch; vague, 
French.] Water raised above the level of the surface; 
billow; water driven into inequalities. 
Amidst these toils succeeds the balmy night; 
Now hissing waters the quench’d guns restore; 
And weary waves withdrawing from the fight, 
Are lull’d, and pant upon the silent shore. Dri/den. 
Unevenness; inequality.—Thus it happens, if the glass 
of the prisms be free from veins, and their sides be accurately 
plane and well polished, without those numberless waves, or 
curls, which usually arise from sand-holes a little smoothed 
in polishing with putty. Newton. 
To WAVE, v. n. [papian, Saxon.] To play loosely; 
to float. 
Messapus’ helm 
He laces on, and wears the waving crest. Dryden. 
To be moved as a signal. 
A bloody arm it is, that holds a pine 
Lighted above the capitol, and now 
It waves unto us. B. Jonson. 
To be in an unsettled state; to fluctuate; to waver.— 
They wave in and out, no way sufficiently grounded, no way 
resolved, what to think, speak, or write, more than only that 
because they have taken it upon them, they must be opposite. 
Hooker. 
Vo l. XXIV. No. 1658. 
To WAVE, v. a. To raise into inequalities of surface. 
He had a thousand noses, 
Homs welk’d and wav'd like the enridged sea. Shakspearc. 
To move loosely. 
They wav'd their fiery swords, and in the air 
Made horrid circles. Milton. 
To waft; to remove any thing floating.—Some men never 
conceive how the motion of the earth below should wave one 
from a knock perpendicularly directed from a body in the 
air above. Brown. —To beckon; to direct by a waft or 
motion of any thing. 
Look with what courteous action 
It waves you to a more removed ground: 
But do not go with it. Shakspearc. 
[guesver, Fr. Skinner .] To put off; to quit; to depart 
from. 
These, waving plots, found out a better way; 
Some god descended, and preserv’d the play. Dryden. 
To put aside for the present.—I have wav'd the subject of 
your greatness, to resign myself to the contemplation of what 
is more peculiarly your’s. Dri/den. 
WA'VELESS, adj. Smooth; without waves. 
Smoother than this waveless spring, 
And purer than the substance of the same. Peele. 
WAVENDON, a parish of England, county of Buck¬ 
ingham ; 4^ miles from Newport Pagnel. Population 685. 
WAVENEY, a river of England, in Suffolk, which, for 
a space, separates this county from Norfolk. It runs by 
Scole, Bellingford, Harleston, Bungay, Beccles, and St. 
Olave’s Marches; and meeting the Yare and Bure, near 
Burgh Castle, they join and flow into the ocean at Yar¬ 
mouth fort. It is navigable from Bungay. 
To WA'VER, v. n. [papian, Sax.] To play to and fro; 
to move loosely. 
The whitening shower descends. 
At first thin wavering. Thomson. 
To be unsettled; to be uncertain, or inconstant; to fluc¬ 
tuate ; not to be determined. 
Remember where we are ; 
In France, among a fickle, wavering nation. Shakspearc. 
To totter; to be in danger of failing.—Has any disloyalty 
dared to feign that religion wavers ?■ They foully mistake; 
as commonly they do, that are more cunning in other men’s 
lives than in their own: ’tis not religion wavers, but their 
loyalty. Holyday. 
WA'VER, s. [a technical word with woodmen, perhaps 
derived from waving with every wind.] A young slender 
tree. Mason. —It is a very ordinary copse that will not 
afford [per acre] three or four firsts, fourteen seconds, twelve 
thirds, eight wavers. Evelyn. 
WAVER, a river of England, in Cumberland, which runs 
into the Wampul. 
WA'VERER, s. One unsettled and irresolute. 
Come, young waverer, come, and go with me; 
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be. Shakspeare. 
WA'VERINGNESS, s. State or quality of being waver¬ 
ing.—The waveringness of our cupidities turneth the mind 
into a dizziness unawares to itself. W. Mount ague. 
WAVERLEY, a hamlet of England, in the county of 
Surrey, near the river Way. It formerly had a handsome 
chapel; and here are still the ruins of Waverley abbey, the 
first Cistertian abbey founded in England. 
WAVERTON, a parish of England, in Cheshire; 41- 
miles south-east-by-east of Chester. 
WAVERTON, High and Low, adjoining hamlets of 
England, in Cumberland; 3 miles west-by-south of Wigton. 
WAVERTREE, a township of England, in Lancashire; 
3j miles east-south-east of Liverpool. 
WA'VING, s. Act of moving or playing loosely.—I am 
delighted with the wavings of thy forests. Addison. 
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