Want to find out what does the word wafting mean? We gathered all the possible definitions of the word wafting on our website. Our definition dictionary is updated all the time with new definitions and is ready to help you.
wafting
Part of speech: NounA bearing or floating, as on water or through air.
Usage examples "wafting":- Silken punkahs swung from chains, wafting back and forth a cloud of sandalwood smoke that veiled the whole scene in mysterious, scented mist. - "King--of the Khyber Rifles", Talbot Mundy.
- Here Lady Midlothian put up both her hands gently, as though wafting the injury away into the air. - "Can You Forgive Her?", Anthony Trollope.
- And the critic who lavishes praise upon a writer for " introducing us to an entirely new atmosphere," for " breaking new ground," and " wafting us to scenes with which the jaded novel- reader is scarcely acquainted," and for " giving us work which bears every trace of minute local research," is praising that which is of secondary importance. - "Adventures in Criticism", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.