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

Wandering; -- applied especially to the pneumogastric nerve. -- n.

ucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The persons who turn va…

A wand or staff of authority or justice. [Obs.] His hand a vare of justice did uphold. Dryden.

A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [Poetic] Pious variers from the church. Tennyson.

Waste; desert; desolate; lonely. [Obs.] The empty, vast, and wandering air. Shak.

The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge. [Eng.]

Having the form of a straight rod; wand-shaped; straight and slender.

A wand. See Verge. [Obs.]

A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. A waif Desirous to return, and not received. Cowper.

ir and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk. A woody mountain . . . with goodliest trees Planted, with walks and bowers. Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. Bry…

Wandering from moral rectitude; perverse; dissolute. "Men grown wanton by prosperity." Roscommon.

To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." A. S. Hardy. We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope.

A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.