- soft, gentle (of rain). On a saft day, on a Scottish mountain, turn your face up to the saft rain and feel it doing your complexion a world of good. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine (1842) captures the tone: A close drizzling rain . . . which the waiter assured me was “a fine saft drappin’ wather.”
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