a. and adv. [f. WAVE sb. + -LIKE.] A. adj. Resembling a wave, or what pertains to a wave.

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1685.  Boyle, Effects of Motion, iii. (1690), 18. I see no necessity of having recourse to any thing but the wave-like motion of the Air for the production of our Phænomenon.

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1830.  Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 468. The wave like motion of the ground during earthquakes.

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1887.  T. Stevens, Around World on Bicycle, I. i. 3. The wave-like macadam abruptly terminates, and I find myself on a common dirt road.

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1889.  Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, XXV. 124. Every now and then a wave-like movement is seen to traverse through them.

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  B.  adv. After the manner of a wave or waves.

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1872.  Routledge’s Ev. Boy’s Ann., 215. The dark solid wall of the enemy’s infantry rolled, wave-like against this position.

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1884.  J. Payn, Lit. Recoll., 33. When I think of that inimitable scene, the humour of it sweeps wavelike over all.

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