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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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214 words match “WAND”

STRIKE v. 2 definitions

e by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light. Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land. Milton.

To wander about idly and vacantly. [Obs.]

STROLL v. 2 definitions

To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift.

SWERVE v. 2 definitions

To stray; to wander; to rope. [Obs.] A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve. Sir P. Sidney.

leaning flax; a scutcher; - - called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.

TOM ' BEDLAM n.

Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.

TRADESCANTIA n.

A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] Dryden.

TRAMP v. 3 definitions

To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. [Colloq.]

To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

TRUANT a. 2 definitions

Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. Trumbull.

To deprive of ligaments; to loose the ligaments of. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints. Milton.

VAGABOND a. 3 definitions

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

The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

A wandering; vagrancy. [Obs.] A thousand vagancies of glory and desight. Milton.

VAGARY n. 2 definitions

A wandering or strolling. [Obs.]

Wandering; unsettled. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism. Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy. Barrow.

VAGRANT a. 3 definitions

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.