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Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

That which annoys. A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair, Any annoyance in that precious sense. Shak.

Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.

ations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

Of or belonging to Mercury's caduceus, or wand.

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

The French lavender (Lawandula Stachas).

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

To make appeal; to cry out. [Obs.] Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag.

Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.

Composed or made; -- with of. [Poetic] A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton.

To wander hither and thither on land. [Colloq.]

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.

To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

revent ill-natured applications. Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. Tennyson.

Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory. [Obs.] "Deambulatory actors." Bp. Morton.