waift

English

Noun

waift (plural waifts)

1. Obsolete form of waif.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Then it is by name
     Proteus , that hath ordayn'd my sonne to die ;
     For that a waift , the which by fortune came
     Upon your seas , he claym'd as propertie

References

• “waift”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.