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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.

In a vagrant manner.

State of being vagrant; vagrancy.

Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. "Able-bodied vagrant." Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n..

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

One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.

A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant. [Obs.] Mason.

Wandering; vagrant. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.

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

Vagrant; wandering about.

To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser.

An idle vagrant; a tramp. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang]

uction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

Vagrant. [Obs.] Spenser. His roguish madness Allows itself to anything. Shak.

ves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

A vagrant; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson.