Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WAFT, v.t. [perhaps from wave; if so, it belongs to the root of wag.]

1. To bear through a fluid or buoyant medium; to convey, through water or air; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, / And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. – Pope.
2. To convey; as ships. – Cyc.
3. To buoy; to cause to float; to keep from sinking. – Brown.
4. To beckon; to give notice by something in motion. [Not in use.] [This verb is regular. But waft was formerly used by some writers for wafted.]