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† Weft sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. † Weft sb.2 Obs. Also 6 waift, wayft, 7–8 waft. Variant or perversion of WAIF sb.1

1 1579.  Acts Privy Counc. (1895), XI. 196. Claiming the ship and goodes as a weft dewe to the lordes of the soile. Ibid., 247.

2 1590.  Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 36. The gentle Lady … did … wander wide At wilde aduenture, like a forlorne weft. Ibid. (1596), IV. ii. 4. Ibid., IV. xii. 31. For that a waift [i.e., Florimell], the which by fortune came Vpon your seas, he claym’d as propertie.

3 1591.  Art. conc. Admiralty, 21 July, § 46. Those, which vpon the high Seas, haue found any … Boates forsaken, or wayfts, driuing, or floating, without any creature in the same.

4 1599.  B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., I. ii. The Lord of the soile ha’s al wefts and straies here?

5 a. 1625.  Fletcher, Elder Brother, IV. iv. You are Lord o’ the soile Sir, Lilly is a Weft, a Straie, shee’s yours, to use Sir.

6 1678.  Dryden, Limberham, V. i. Do you know that I am Lady of the Mannour: and that all Wefts and Strays belong to me?

7 a. 1680.  Butler, Characters (1908), 127. His Belly is provided for,… his Back … takes other Courses to maintain itself by weft and stray Silver Spoons, stragling Hoods and Scarfs, [etc.].

8 c. 1680.  Beveridge, Serm. (1729), I. 532. It is as a waft or stray, that belongs only to the head landlord of the world, to whom therefore you must restore it.

9 1708.  J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. II. xii. 498. The Causes competent to the Admiralty Court of Scotland, are these among others…. Wafts, and Strays, and Deodands, and Wrecks.

10 1838.  Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 569. Farther corrections I shall make … for a posthumous edition, in which also I shall embody some wefts and strays.

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