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waif
Part of speech: NounAnything found, or without an owner; a homeless wanderer; a foundling, or deserted child.
Usage examples "waif":- Understand, I am not censuring you for being a nameless waif. - "Torchy, Private Sec.", Sewell Ford.
- The Log of a Sea Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life. - "Southern Arabia", Theodore Bent Mabel Bent.
- Hence, after the first unsuccessful effort, no further attempt had been made to discover the parentage of the little waif. - "Idle Hour Stories", Eugenia Dunlap Potts.