These are the meanings of the letters NAEVW when you unscramble them.
- Anew (adv.)
Over again; another time; in a new form; afresh; as, to arm anew; to create anew.
- Nave (n.)
The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
- Nave (n.)
The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.
- Nave (n.)
The navel.
- Vane (n.)
A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
- Vane (n.)
Any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.
- Vane (n.)
One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
- Vane (n.)
The rhachis and web of a feather taken together.
- Vena (n.)
A vein.
- Wane (n.)
An inequality in a board.
- Wane (n.)
Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
- Wane (n.)
The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
- Wane (v. i.)
To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
- Wane (v. i.)
To decline; to fail; to sink.
- Wane (v. t.)
To cause to decrease.
- Wave (n.)
Woe.
- Wave (v. i.)
A vibration propagated from particle to particle through a body or elastic medium, as in the transmission of sound; an assemblage of vibrating molecules in all phases of a vibration, with no phase repeated; a wave of vibration; an undulation. See Undulation.
- Wave (v. i.)
A waving or undulating motion; a signal made with the hand, a flag, etc.
- Wave (v. i.)
An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation.
- Wave (v. i.)
Fig.: A swelling or excitement of thought, feeling, or energy; a tide; as, waves of enthusiasm.
- Wave (v. i.)
The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.
- Wave (v. i.)
To be moved to and fro as a signal.
- Wave (v. i.)
To fluctuate; to waver; to be in an unsettled state; to vacillate.
- Wave (v. i.)
To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate.
- Wave (v. i.)
Unevenness; inequality of surface.
- Wave (v. i.)
Water; a body of water.
- Wave (v. t.)
See Waive.
- Wave (v. t.)
To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- Wave (v. t.)
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- Wave (v. t.)
To move one way and the other; to brandish.
- Wave (v. t.)
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
- Wean (a.)
Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
- Wean (a.)
To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
- Wean (n.)
A weanling; a young child.