Word Finder - waifs

noun

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(of a plant outside its native range) A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized.

definition

Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.

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Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.

Examples of waifs in a Sentence

It cares not only for waifs and strays, but for cripples and delicate children.

These boys were frequently orphans or waifs taken off the streets.

These models tend to embody that girl next door look; you won't find any waifs here!

Other institutions are the London Hospital, Whitechapel, the East London children's hospital, the headquarters of Dr Barnardo's Homes, Stepney Causeway, and Her Majesty's Hospital for waifs connected therewith; the Stepney training college of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the Spitalfields trade and technical school.

You would think we were poor starved waifs the way the wives of the organizers tried to fill us up with food.

Forget the current vogue for anorexic waifs - these are real men and women, abundant, sensuous and committed.

Now, if words and images come to me without effort, it is a pretty sure sign that they are not the offspring of my own mind, but stray waifs that I regretfully dismiss.

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