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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.

Vagabondage.

To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

Vagabondage.

One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. Nares. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Goldsmith.

ce occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.

The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a social gypsy or "Bohemian" (see Bohemian, n., 3); vagabond; unconventional; free and easy. [Modern] Hers was a pleasant Bohemian life till she was five and thirty. Blackw. Mag. Artists have abandoned their Bohemian manners and customs nowadays. W. Black. Bohemian chatterer, or Bohemian waxwing (Zo…

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism. Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists. Acts xix. 13.

A roving vagabond. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguil…

One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast. Thackeray.

A vagabond. [Obs.] Spenser.

An idler; a vagabond. Wharton.

A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." Moltey.

To spend time in idleness; to lounge or loiter about. " Loafing vagabonds." W. Black.

An idle vagabond. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.