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A toddling walk. Trollope.

To travel; to wander; to stroll.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.

; supereminence. The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity at its controlling principle. A. V. G. Allen.

air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is controlled by a change of pressure in the air pipe leading from the locomotive.

See Troll.

See Troll.

A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop. Shak.

A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll. Come, you and I must walk a turn together. Shak. I will take a turn in your garden. Dryden.

Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope.

A promise or pledge; a guarantee. A. Trollope.

Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.

Not governed or controlled. "Unruled and undirected." Spenser.

Something not true; a false statement. [Recent & R.] A. Trollope.

Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

A wandering or strolling. [Obs.]

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.

ficer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a consul. -- Vice king, one who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy. -- Vice legate Etym: [cf. F. vice-légat], a legate second in rank to, or acting in place of, another legate. -- Vice presidency, the office of v…

there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23.