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Waft


WAFT, verb transitive

1. To bear through a fluid or bouyant medium; to convey through water or air; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, and waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.

2. To convey; as ships.

3. To bouy; to cause to float; to keep from sinking.

4. To beckon; to give notice by something in motion. [Not in use.]

[This verb is regular. But waft was formerly used by some writers for wafted.]

WAFT, verb intransitive To float; to be moved or to pass in a bouyant medium.

And now the shouts waft near the citadel.

WAFT, noun A floating body; also, a signal displayed from a ships stern, by hoisting an ensign furled in a roll, to the head of the staff.