VAGUE

a. n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the vague villains." Hayward. She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats.

2.
a.

Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition. This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. I. Taylor. The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. Hawthorne.

3.
a.

Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report. Some legend strange and value. Longfellow. Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac.

4.
n.

An indefinite expanse. [R.] The gray vague of unsympathizing sea. Lowell.

5.
v.

To wander; to roam; to stray. [Obs.] "[The soul] doth vague and wander." Holland.

6.
n.

A wandering; a vagary. [Obs.] Holinshed.

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