What does "waif" mean?
Waif: 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.
Additional senses
- 2.A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. A waif Desirous to return, and not received. Cowper.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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