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Vacillate
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Seesaw
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Seesaw
A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Alternate
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
Waggle
To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
Coggle
A small fishing boat.
Flounder
A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species.
Reappear
To appear again.
Rotate
Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
Tergiversate
To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
Oscillating
of Oscillate
Equivocate
To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to misle..
Wave
See Waive.
Swag
To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
Lurch
To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
Teeter
To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.
Vary
To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature o..
Fluctuate
To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
Alternate
Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
Stagger
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
Recur
To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
Repeat
To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
Reel
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
Quiver
Nimble; active.
Knife-edge
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the l..
Spin
To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
Revolve
To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
Shift
To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
Change
To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.
Wag
To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
Wobble
See Wabble.
Roll
To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
Careen
To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.
Seesaw
A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
Rock
See Roc.
Flicker
To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
Quaver
To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
Pulse
Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
Vibrate
of Vibrate
Toss
To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
Shift
To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Totter
To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
Waver
To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
Intermit
To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.
Dangle
To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
Undulate
Same as Undulated.
Oscillate
To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.
Bob
Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
Stagger
To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
Pitch
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
Sway
To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
Return
To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
Flutter
To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
Turn
To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change positi..
Shake
obs. p. p. of Shake.
Shuffle
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
Swing
To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
Flap
Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
Cycle
An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
Circle
A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.
Wheel
A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or nave, in which is inserted the axle, -- used fo..
