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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waif \Waif\, n. [OF. waif, gaif, as adj., lost, unclaimed, chose
gaive a waif, LL wayfium res vaivae of Scand. origin. See
{Waive}.]
1. (Eng. Law.) Goods found of which the owner is not known
originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to
prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king
unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him and
brought him to justice. --Blackstone.
2. Hence anything found or without an owner; that which
comes along as it were by chance. ``Rolling in his mind
old waifs of rhyme.'' --Tennyson.
3. A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
A waif Desirous to return, and not received.
--Cowper.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
waif
n : a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
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