Usually means: Homeless, neglected, or abandoned person.
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  1. waif: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. waif: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waif, waif: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. waif: Collins English Dictionary
  5. waif: Vocabulary.com
  6. Waif, waif: Wordnik
  7. waif: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. WAIF, waif: Wiktionary
  9. waif: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. waif: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. waif: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. waif: Dictionary.com
  13. waif: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. waif: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Waif, Waif (disambiguation), Waif: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Waif: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. waif: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. waif: Rhymezone
  19. Waif: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. waif: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. waif: Free Dictionary
  22. waif: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. waif: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. waif: Legal dictionary

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  1. waif: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. waif: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agate Lexicon (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waif: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See waiflike as well.)

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noun:  (British, law, archaic) An article of movable property which has been found, and of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
noun:  (figuratively)
noun:  Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.
noun:  A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
noun:  (by extension) A very thin person.
noun:  (by extension, botany) A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but not persistently naturalized.
verb:  (transitive) To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.
noun:  (nautical, chiefly whaling, historical) A small flag used as a signal.
noun:  Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) A minor celebrity who does not deserve his or her fame.

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