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n. A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child.

n. An abandoned young animal.

n. Something found and unclaimed, as an object cast up by the sea.

n. Nautical See waft.

n. 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.

n. Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.

n. A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

n. 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.

n. Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.

n. A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

n. Anything blown by the wind or drifted in by the ocean; a thing tossed abroad and abandoned; a stray or odd piece or article.

n. In law: Goods found of which the owner is not known.

n. Such goods as a thief, when pursued, throws away to prevent being apprehended.

n. A wanderer; one who is lost; a neglected, homeless wretch: applied also to beasts.

n. Same as weft or waft.

Vagabond; worthless; ignoble; inferior. Also waff.

n. a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

""I hate to use the word waif, but what else can you call all these skinny young hairless guys?""

youngster    minor    nestling    shaver    kid    tiddler    tyke    child    nipper    tike   

masthead waif    waft   

wanderer    castaway    stray   

Rafe    chafe    safe    strafe    unsafe   

wanderer    orphan    outcast    foundling    beggar    urchin    wench    voyager    hamlet