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Wafture

Wafture \Waf"ture\, n. The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.
--R. Browning.

An angry wafture of your hand.
--Shak.

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wafture

n. 1 Something that is wafted. 2 The act of wafting something.

WordNet
wafture

n. the act of signaling by a movement of the hand [syn: wave, waving]

Usage examples of "wafture".

Through that vague wafture, expirations strong Throb from young hickories breathing deep and long With stress and urgence bold of prisoned spring And ecstasy of burgeoning.

That a kiss or a whisper might fall from her Down by the way of Time to me: Or some least grace of the body of love, -- Mere wafture of floating-by, Mere sense of unseen smiling above, Mere hint sincere of a large blue eye, Mere dim receipt of sad delight From Nearness warm in the air, What time with the passing of the night She also passed, somehow, somewhere.

A pine-scented wafture of moist mountain air reached him and he took several Pranayama, pulling the air deeply into his lungs.

Up-breathed from the marshes, a message of range and of sweep, Interwoven with waftures of wild sea-liberties, drifting, Came through the lapped leaves sifting, sifting, Came to the gates of sleep.

The man denied it energetically, but a few mysterious waftures of the hand of his lord, set him trembling, and after a few more, his lips, moving by a secret compulsion, and finding no power in their owner to check their utterance, confessed all the truth, whereupon his master ordered him to go and bring his accounts.