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from twelve to fifteen feet long, covered with a house, and sometimes used as a permanent habitation on the inland waters. [Written also sanpan.]

One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. [Obs.] "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.

place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.…

erity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. He sped him thence home to his habitation. Fairfax.

A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.

A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

To deprive of habitation or shelter, as a crowd.

To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.

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

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

A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.

To dwell; to abide. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Their habitation in which they woned. Chaucer.