a. [f. WAVER v. or sb. + -Y1.] Characterized by wavering or fluttering; tremulous, unsteady.
1820. Blackw. Mag., VI. 679. Across the silence seem to go With dream-like motion, wavery, slow,… The friends we loved long long ago!
1883. Mrs. R. T. Ritchie, Bk. Sibyls, i. 2. Some old letters covered with a wavery writing.
1897. F. Thompson, New Poems, 184. All her waving hair … Lapsing like music, wavery as water, Slid to her waist.
1913. Mrs. Stratton-Porter, Laddie, iv. (1916), 79. Making his voice all wavery and tremulous be began reciting from ‘Lochiel’s Warning’ in tones of agonized pleading.
