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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Waft  \Waft\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wafted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Wafting}.]  [Prob.  originally  imp.  &  p.  p.  of  wave,  v.  t.  See 
  {Wave}  to  waver.] 
  1.  To  give  notice  to  by  waving  something  to  wave  the  hand 
  to  to  beckon.  [Obs.] 
 
  But  soft:  who  wafts  us  yonder?  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  cause  to  move  or  go  in  a  wavy  manner,  or  by  the  impulse 
  of  waves,  as  of  water  or  air;  to  bear  along  on  a  buoyant 
  medium;  as  a  balloon  was  wafted  over  the  channel. 
 
  A  gentle  wafting  to  immortal  life.  --Milton. 
 
  Speed  the  soft  intercourse  from  soul  to  soul,  And 
  waft  a  sigh  from  Indus  to  the  pole.  --Pope. 
 
  3.  To  cause  to  float;  to  keep  from  sinking;  to  buoy.  [Obs.] 
  --Sir  T.  Browne. 
 
  Note:  This  verb  is  regular;  but  waft  was  formerly  som?times 
  used  as  by  Shakespeare,  instead  of  wafted. 

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