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A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] Dryden.

To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. [Colloq.]

To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. Trumbull.

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

The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

A wandering; vagrancy. [Obs.] A thousand vagancies of glory and desight. Milton.

A wandering or strolling. [Obs.]

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.

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 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.

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…