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A small stick; a rod; a verge. With good smart blows of a wand on his back. Locke.

ain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23.

One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.

a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross (Zoöl.), the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell (Physiol.), an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering Jew (Bot.), any one of several creeping species of Tradesc…

In a wandering manner.

The act of wandering, or roaming. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ncircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. [Written also ouanderoo.]

Long and flexible, like a wand. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.

See Ellwand.

To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness. [Obs.]

A measuring rod. Ascham.

To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Sea girdles.

A yardstick. Tennyson.

To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

Wandering; straying from the right way.

The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. "The aberration of youth." Hall. "Aberrations from theory." Burke.

Here and there; around; in one place and another. Wandering about from house to house. 1 Tim. v. 13.