vagrant

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VA'GRANT, adjective [Latin vagor.] 1. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as a vagrant beggar. 2. Wandering; unsettled; moving without any certain direction. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. VA'GRANT, noun An idle wanderer; a vagabond; one who strolls from place to place; a sturdy beggar; one who has no settled habitation, or who does not abide in it. Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view.
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