VAGABOND

a. n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak.

2.
a.

Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. Milton.

3.
a.

Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

4.
n.

One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12.

5.
v.

To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. On every part my vagabonding sight Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight. Drummond.

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