wafts

Verb

waft (third-person singular simple present wafts, present participle wafting, simple past and past participle wafted)

1. (ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.
   • A breeze came in through the open window and wafted her sensuous perfume into my eager nostrils.

   Synonyms:

   breathe

2. (intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
   • Unhappy Aureng-Zebe is in disgrace; / And your Morat, proclaimed the successor, / Is called, to awe the city with his power. / Those trumpets his triumphant entry tell, / And now the shouts waft near the citadel.1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: [s.n.], OCLC 497010563, Act III, scene i; republished as “Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy”, in Walter Scott, editor, The Works of John Dryden, now First Collected in...
3. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
   • […] but ſoft: who wafts vs yonder.c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac...

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