Term: waif: a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
Candidate hypernym: child: a young person of either sex → 1
Candidate hypernym: houseful: as many as a house will accommodate → 0
Candidate hypernym: translucence: the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely → 0
Candidate hypernym: strip: a relatively long narrow piece of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: meadow jumping mouse: widely distributed in northeastern and central United States and Canada → 0
Candidate hypernym: lucubration: a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation → 0
Candidate hypernym: private line: a telephone line serving a single subscriber → 0
Candidate hypernym: rediffusion: a system for distributing radio or tv programs → 0
Candidate hypernym: box: a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid → 0
Candidate hypernym: conductor: the person who leads a musical group → 0
Candidate hypernym: protocol: (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data → 0