waif
waif is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. A waif Desirous to return, and not received. Cowper.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abandon
- abandonment
- advantage
- all
- apart
- aright
- aside
- away
- behalf
- behind
- behoof
- beneficial
- benefit
- best
- blessing
- boon
- boot
- cast
- cede
- cession
- chance
- commendable
- common
- consummation
- course
- culls
- deed
- derelict
- dereliction
- devoutly
- disburden
- discard
- dismiss
- dispensation
- dispose
- dispossess
- disuse
- divest
- down
- drop
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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