a. Obs. [f. WAW sb.1 + -Y.] Full of waves, billowy; = WAVY a. 1.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, I. 3938. Þe see is calme and blaundisching From trouble of wynde and wawy boilyng. Ibid. (1426), De Guil. Pilgr., 19244. Alle pylgrymes … That swymmen in the wawy see.
a. 1500. Chaucer’s Dreme, 697. Ten thousand shipes at a sight, I saw come ouer the wawy flood.
1503. Hawes, Examp. Virt., x. 181. This stormy troublous and wawy water.
