Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of wafting, or the state of being wafted; conveyance or transportation through or over a buoyant medium, as air or water; especially, passage by water.
Wiktionary
- n. Conveyance on a buoyant medium, such as air or water.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.
Examples
“Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire to the further shore:”
“I have walked London streets for twelve and fifteen hours together without even a thought of saving my legs or my time, by paying for waftage.”
“To make the scene perfectly realistic there is a smell of breakfast cooking, not unpleasant to those within its waftage who are yet to have their appetites appeased.”
“Tummel -- for he used to build in the cliffs of Ben-Brackie, and if he has shifted his eyrie, a few minutes 'waftage will bear him to Cairn-Gower.”
“Stygian Banks staying for waftage, 'I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate that I am content to be alone. ”
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wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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wordage
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verbiage, decoupage, coinage, slayage, usage, carnage, damage, courage, savage, beverage, language, blockage and 82 more...
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