VAGRANT

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.

2.
a.

Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.

3.
n.

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.


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