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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Vagrant

Vā'grant, a.

adjective

a. [Norm. Fr. vagarant, O. Fr. vagant, vagans, from Fr. vaguer, to stray, Lat. vagari. See VAGARY.]

Sense 1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; unsettled. “That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.” Prior.

While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love. Macaulay.

Sense 2. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.

Vā'grant, n.

noun

n. [See supra.] One who strolls from place to place; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; one who has no settled habitation, or who does not abide in it; a vagabond. [See Note under VAGABOND.]

Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view. Prior.