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waft


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Waft  \Waft\,  v.  i. 
  To  be  moved  or  to  pass,  on  a  buoyant  medium;  to  float. 
 
  And  now  the  shouts  waft  near  the  citadel.  --Dryden. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Waft  \Waft\,  n. 
  1.  A  wave  or  current  of  wind.  ``Everywaft  of  the  air.'' 
  --Longfellow. 
 
  In  this  dire  season,  oft  the  whirlwind's  wing  Sweeps 
  up  the  burden  of  whole  wintry  plains  In  one  wide 
  waft.  --Thomson. 
 
  2.  A  signal  made  by  waving  something  as  a  flag,  in  the  air. 
 
  3.  An  unpleasant  flavor.  [Obs.] 
 
  4.  (Naut.)  A  knot,  or  stop,  in  the  middle  of  a  flag.  [Written 
  also  {wheft}.] 
 
  Note:  A  flag  with  a  waft  in  it  when  hoisted  at  the  staff,  or 
  half  way  to  the  gaff,  means  a  man  overboard;  at  the 
  peak,  a  desire  to  communicate;  at  the  masthead, 
  ``Recall  boats.'' 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  waft 
  n  :  a  long  flag;  often  tapering  [syn:  {pennant},  {pennon},  {streamer}] 
  v  1:  be  driven  or  carried  along  [syn:  {drift}] 
  2:  blow  gently;  "A  breeze  wafted  through  the  door" 




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