WAIF
\wˈe͡ɪf], \wˈeɪf], \w_ˈeɪ_f]\
Definitions of WAIF
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned; "street children beg or steal in order to survive"
By Princeton University
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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.
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Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
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A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
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A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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