WANDERING, participle present tense Roving; rambling; deviating from duty. WANDERING, noun 1. Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course. 2. Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as a wandering from duty. 3. A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged. 4. The roving of the mind in a dream. 5. The roving of the mind in delirium. 6. Uncertainty; want of being fixed.
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