Wait: Definition and part of speech

Wait

v. i. Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
v. i. To watch; to observe; to take notice.
v. i. To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
v. t. To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
v. t. To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
v. t. To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
v. t. To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; — said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
v. i. The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
v. i. Ambush.
v. i. One who watches; a watchman.
1v. i. 1 Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
n. A cloth or wrapper worn about the waist; by extension, such a garment worn about the hips and passing between the thighs.

n. A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.
n. A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.

n. One wearing a waistcoat; esp., a woman wearing one uncovered, or thought fit for such a habit; hence, a loose woman; strumpet.

n. A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used.

n. A seaman, usually a green hand or a broken-down man, stationed in the waist of a vessel of war.

n. A girdle or belt for the waist.
n. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips.
n. Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel’s deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
n. A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.