2. Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance. "Rolling in his mind old waifs of rhyme." Tennyson.
3. A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. A waif Desirous to return, and not received. Cowper.
WAIFT
Waift, n.
Defn: A waif. [Obs.] Spenser.
WAIL
Wail, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Icel. val choice, velja to choose, akin to
Goth. waljan, G. wählen.]
Defn: To choose; to select. [Obs.] "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
WAIL
Wail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wailing.] Etym:
[OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. væla; cf. Icel. væ, vei, woe,
and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei, woe. Cf. Woe.]
Defn: To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's death.
Shak.
WAIL
Wail, v. i.
Defn: To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah i. 8.