Obs. or dial. Also 6 wyfft. [Onomatopœic.] intr. † a. To turn aside or go astray (obs.). b. To move lightly to and fro, or along; to waver; to drift.
1554–8. in Songs & Ball. Phil. & Mary (Roxb.), 4. To walke the wurthy wayes, and frame then not to wyfft.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XVI. v. 63. Dragons, wrought with woufe of purple thred,… leaving their winding tailes to wift in the wind.
1864. Harland’s Lanc. Lyrics (1866), 234. An’ tell me, while thae ’rt wiftin’ on, Heaw things are deawn i’ Howden Dale.
