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Definition waifing
Etymology
From Middle English weif, from Anglo-Norman waif, possibly from Old French waif, variant of gayf (“stray; wandering; vagabond”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse veif (“flag, waving thing”), from Proto-Germanic *waif-, from Proto-Indo-European *weib-, *weip- (“to oscillate, swing”).
Noun
waif (plural waifs)
- A castaway; a homeless child.
- (botany, of a plant outside its native range) A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized.
- (obsolete) 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.
- (obsolete) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
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