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vagabond

 

  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vagabond  \Vag"a*bond\,  v.  i. 
  To  play  the  vagabond;  to  wander  like  a  vagabond;  to  stroll. 
 
  On  every  part  my  vagabonding  sight  Did  cast,  and  drown 
  mine  eyes  in  sweet  delight.  --Drummond. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vagabond  \Vag"a*bond\,  a.  [F.,  fr  L.  vagabundus  from  vagari  to 
  stroll  about  from  vagus  strolling.  See  {Vague}.] 
  1.  Moving  from  place  to  place  without  a  settled  habitation; 
  wandering.  ``Vagabond  exile.''  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Floating  about  without  any  certain  direction;  driven  to 
  and  fro. 
 
  To  heaven  their  prayers  Flew  up  nor  missed  the  way 
  by  envious  winds  Blown  vagabond  or  frustrate. 
  --Milton. 
 
  3.  Being  a  vagabond;  strolling  and  idle  or  vicious. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vagabond  \Vag"a*bond\,  n. 
  One  who  wanders  from  place  to  place  having  no  fixed 
  dwelling,  or  not  abiding  in  it  and  usually  without  the  means 
  of  honest  livelihood;  a  vagrant;  a  tramp;  hence  a  worthless 
  person;  a  rascal. 
 
  A  fugitive  and  a  vagabond  shalt  thou  be  --Gen.  iv  12. 
 
  Note:  In  English  and  American  law,  vagabond  is  used  in  bad 
  sense  denoting  one  who  is  without  a  home;  a  strolling, 
  idle,  worthless  person.  Vagabonds  are  described  in  old 
  English  statutes  as  ``such  as  wake  on  the  night  and 
  sleep  on  the  day  and  haunt  customable  taverns  and 
  alehouses,  and  routs  about  and  no  man  wot  from  whence 
  they  came  nor  whither  they  go.''  In  American  law,  the 
  term  vagrant  is  employed  in  the  same  sense  Cf  {Rogue}, 
  n.,  1.  --Burrill.  --Bouvier. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vagabond 
  adj  1:  wandering  aimlessly  without  ties  to  a  place  or  community; 
  "led  a  vagabond  life";  "a  rootless  wanderer"  [syn:  {rootless}] 
  2:  continually  changing  especially  as  from  one  abode  or 
  occupation  to  another;  "a  drifting  double-dealer";  "the 
  floating  population";  "vagrant  hippies  of  the  sixties" 
  [syn:  {aimless},  {drifting},  {floating},  {vagrant}] 
  n  1:  anything  that  resembles  a  vagabond  in  having  no  fixed  place 
  "pirate  ships  were  vagabonds  of  the  sea" 
  2:  a  person  who  has  no  fixed  home 
  v  :  wander  about  aimlessly;  "The  gypsies  roamed  the  woods"  [syn: 
  {wander},  {swan},  {stray},  {roam},  {cast},  {ramble},  {rove}, 
  {range},  {drift}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Vagabond 
  from  Lat.  vagabundus  "a  wanderer,"  "a  fugitive;"  not  used 
  opprobriously  (Gen.  4:12,  R.V.,  "wanderer;"  Ps  109:10;  Acts 
  19:13,  R.V.,  "strolling").




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