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waft🔊

To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.

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Through the open window of the church the fragrant incense was wafted and with it the fragrant names of her who was conceived without stain of original sin […]

To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.

To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

A light breeze.

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It lay before him white and ghaistly, with mist blowing in wafts across it and a slow swaying of the tides.

Something (such as an odor or perfume) that is carried through the air.

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Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously.

(nautical) A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft.

(cricket, slang) A loose noncommittal shot, usually played to a ball pitched short of length and well wide of the off stump.

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