1.To watch; to observe; to take notice. (Obs.) ""But (unless) ye wait well and be privy, I wot right well, I am but dead," quoth she."
2.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. "All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come." "They also serve who only stand and wait." "Haste, my dear father; 't is no time to wait."
To wait on or To wait upon. (a)To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table. "Authority and reason on her wait." "I must wait on myself, must I?"
(b)To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.
(c)To follow, as a consequence; to await. "That ruin that waits on such a supine temper."
(d)To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. (R.) "It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye."
(e)To attend to; to perform. "Aaron and his sons... shall wait on their priest's office."
(f)(Falconry) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; said of a hawk.
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