wafture

1. (archaic) Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound.Examples: "lower roofs, from which, as from hanging gardens, floated waftures sweet as the perfumed airs of the Indian isles"; "Stray waftures of invisible gases bit his eyes and made them sting."; "It is doubtful, however, if she would have allowed quite so deep a wafture of lamentation to have passed her lips had she been alone."archaiccountableuncountable

2. (archaic) The act of wafting something.Examples: "[…] you answer’d not, / But, with an angry wafture of your hand, / Gave sign for me to leave you:"; "1785, Henry Boyd (translator), Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Dublin: P. Byrne, Canto 1, p. 198, Then those that sing amid the purging flame, / Inspir’d by ling’ring hope at last to claim / A tardy wafture to the happy shore."; "[…] the gentle Thames […] landed me, in the wafture of a placid wave or two, alone, safe and inglorious, somewhere at the foot of Lambeth palace."archaiccountableuncountable