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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.

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.

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.

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

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…

The act of wandering, or roaming. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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.