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To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift.

One who strolls; a vagrant.

A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern]

e butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your butler strolled abroad. Pope.

A strolling gamester. [Ireland] Spenser.

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.

place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.

To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging. She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop lounge. Miss Edgeworth.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton.

To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.

or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation. Coming home, after a short Christians ramble. Swift.

To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy 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.

To stroll. [Obs.]

To travel; to wander; to stroll.

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

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

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.