waft

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to go gently and smoothly through the air or over water.
2. v. To convey or send floating through the air or over water.
3. v. To float easily and gently, as on the air; drift: "It was a heat that wafted from streets, rolled between buildings and settled over sidewalks” ( Sarah Lyall).
4. n. Something, such as an odor, that is carried through the air.
5. n. A light breeze; a rush of air.
6. n. The act of fluttering or waving.
7. n. Nautical A flag used for signaling or indicating wind direction. Also called waif².

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To be moved or to pass in a buoyant medium; float.
2. To bear through a fluid or buoyant medium; convey through or as through water or air.
3. To buoy up; cause to float; keep from sinking.
4. To give notice by something in motion; signal to, as by waving the hand; beckon.
5. To cast lightly and quickly; turn.
6. n. The act of one who or that which wafts; a sweep; a beckoning. Also spelled weft.
7. n. That which is blown; a breath; a blast; a puff.
8. n. A transient odor or effluvium.
9. n. Nautical, a signal displayed from a ship by hoisting a flag rolled up length wise with one or more stops. Before the establishment of a universal system of signals, a waft at the flagstaff signified a man overboard, at the peak it indicated a wish to speak, and at a masthead it was used to recall boats. Also dialectally weft and erroneously wheft.

Wiktionary

1. v. ergative to cause to float easily or gently through the air
2. n. A light breeze.
3. n. Something (a scent or odor), such as a perfume, that is carried through the air.
4. n. nautical A flag, (also called a waif or wheft), used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
2. v. To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium.
3. v. obsolete To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
4. v. To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
5. n. A wave or current of wind.
6. n. A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.
7. n. obsolete An unpleasant flavor.
8. n. (Naut.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a long flag; often tapering
2. v. be driven or carried along, as by the air
3. v. blow gently