waif¹ /wāf/

1. A neglected, abandoned or orphaned child
2. A homeless wanderer
3. A fashionable young woman, esp a model, of extremely slender build (informal)
4. A piece of property found ownerless, eg a strayed animal, or goods cast up by the tide (Spenser waift or weft; also figurative)
5. Stolen goods abandoned by the thief (obsolete)

Wandering, neglected

To cast up as a waif

waifˈish adjective

• self-drive
• self-driven
• selfed
• selfe-despight
• selfe-despights
• self-educated
• self-education
• self-effacement
• self-effacements
• self-effacing
• self-effacingly
• self-elected
• self-electing
• self-election
• self-elections
• self-elective
• self-employed
• self-employment
• self-end
• self-endeared
• self-ends
• self-enjoyment
• self-enrichment
• self-esteem
• self-evidence