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Adventure; hap. [Obs.] In aunters, perchance.

To venture; to dare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

See Chantry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who daunts.

Lest that. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who, or that which, haunts.

Peradventure. See Paraventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

azy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter. One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream. Masson.

One who saunters.

One who taunts.

Same as Tranter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

One who vaunts; a boaster.

chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.

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

To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.

Despondency. The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

Lit., strolling; sauntering; hence, aimless; idleness; as, intellectual flânerie.

. vii. 7. To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] "Knocking about town." W. Irving. -- To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service."…

To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind. Sir John, you loiter here too long. Shak. If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace. Rogers.