These are the meanings of the letters AWIFT when you unscramble them.
- Fiat (n.)
A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
- Fiat (n.)
An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
- Fiat (n.)
An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
- Waft (n.)
A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag.
- Waft (n.)
A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.
- Waft (n.)
A wave or current of wind.
- Waft (n.)
An unpleasant flavor.
- Waft (v. i.)
To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
- Waft (v. t.)
To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
- Waft (v. t.)
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; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
- Waft (v. t.)
To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
- Waif (n.)
A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
- Waif (n.)
Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.
- Waif (n.)
Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
- Wait (v. i.)
Ambush.
- Wait (v. i.)
Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
- Wait (v. i.)
Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
- Wait (v. i.)
One who watches; a watchman.
- Wait (v. i.)
The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
- Wait (v. i.)
To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
- Wait (v. i.)
To watch; to observe; to take notice.
- Wait (v. t.)
To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
- Wait (v. t.)
To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
- Wait (v. t.)
To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
- Wait (v. t.)
To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.