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

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.

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

a lone traveler or watcher. When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered. Shenstone.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13.

A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.

One who roams; a wanderer.

urai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.

One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.

To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit. Crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities. Macaulay.

One who strays; a wanderer.

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.

A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [Poetic] Pious variers from the church. Tennyson.

A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child. A waif Desirous to return, and not received. Cowper.