Words Like WAIF
    
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            4 Alternative Words Similar to waif
   
            
               
            
            
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        10 definitions of waif
           
        
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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.
    
    
    
 
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        a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
    
    
    
 
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        A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child.
    
    
    
 
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        An abandoned young animal.
    
    
    
 
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        Something found and unclaimed, as an object cast up by the sea.
    
    
    
 
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        Anything blown by the wind or drifted in by the ocean; a thing tossed abroad and abandoned; a stray or odd piece or article.
    
    
    
 
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        In law: Goods found of which the owner is not known.