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waif |
2 definitions found 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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