vagrantn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈveɪɡr(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈveɪɡrənt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s vagaraunt(e, 1500s–1600s vagarant, 1500s vagarent. β. 1500s– vagrant, 1600s vag'rant.

Etymology: Late Middle English vagraunt , vagaraunt , perhaps an alteration of earlier Anglo-Norman wakerant (wacrant , walcrant ), through association with Latin vagārī : compare vagabond adj. and n. The Anglo-Norman word is employed in the sense of ‘vagrant’ in enactments of the 14th cent.

A. n.

1. One of a class of persons who having no settled home or regular work wander from place to place, and maintain themselves by begging or in some other disreputable or dishonest way; an itinerant beggar or tramp.Vagrants have been the subject of many legal enactments, and by the Act 5 Geo. IV, c. 83 (the Vagrancy Act of 1824, now amended), they were divided into ‘idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, incorrigible rogues and other vagrants’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun] > vagrant

vagrant1444

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person

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filec1300

dogc1330

ribald1340

waynouna1350

waster1352

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losel1362

land-leaper1377

triflera1382

brothelc1390

javelc1400

leftc1400

lorerc1400

shackerellc1420

brethel1440

never-thrift1440

vagrant1444

ne'er-thrifta1450

never-thrivinga1450

nebulona1475

breelc1485

naughty pack?1534

brathel1542

carrion1547

slim1548

unsel155.

pelf1551

shifterc1562

rag1566

wandrel?1567

land-loper1570

nothing-worth1580

baggage1594

roly-poly1602

bash-rag1603

arrant1605

ragabash?1609

flabergullion1611

hilding1611

hard bargain1612

slubberdegullion1612

vauneant1621

knick-knacker1622

idle-pack1624

slabberdegullion1653

thimble-maker1654

whiffler1659

never-do-well1664

good-for-nought1671

ne'er-be-good1675

shack1682

vagabond1686

shabaroon1699

shag-bag1699

houndsfoot1710

ne'er-do-well1737

trumpery1738

rap1742

hallion1789

scamp1808

waffie1808

ne'er-do-good1814

vaurien1829

sculpin1834

shicer1846

good-for-nothing1847

wastrel1847

scallywag1848

shack-bag1855

beat1865

toe-rag1875

rodney1877

toe-ragger1896

low-lifer1902

punk1904

lowlife1909

ringtail1916

git1939

no-hoper1944

schlub1950

piss artist1962

dead leg1964

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp

harlot?c1225

raikera1400

vacabond1404

vagrant1444

gangrela1450

briber?c1475

palliard1484

vagabondc1485

rogue1489

wavenger1493

hermit1495

gaberlunzie1508

knight of the field1508

loiterer1530

straggler1530

runagate1534

ruffler1535

hedge-creeper1548

Abraham man1567

cursitor1567

runner1567

walker1567

tinker1575

traveller1598

Tartar1602

stravagant1606

wagand1614

Circumcellion1623

meechera1625

hedge-bird1631

gaberlunzie man1649

tramp1664

stroller1681

jockey1685

bird of passage1717

randy1724

tramper1760

stalko1804

vagabondager1813

rintherout1814

piker1838

pikey1838

beachcomber1840

roadster1851

vagabondizer1860

roustabout1862

bum1864

migratory1866

potter1867

sundowner1868

vag1868

walkabout1872

transient1877

Murrumbidgee whaler1878

rouster1882

run-the-hedge1882

whaler1883

shaughraun1884

heather-cat1886

hobo1889

tussocker1889

gay cat1893

overlander1898

stake-man1899

stiff1899

bindle-stiff1900

dingbat1902

stew-bum1902

tired Tim (also Timothy)1906

skipper1925

Strandlooper1927

knight of the road1928

hobohemian1936

plain turkey1955

scrub turkey1955

derro1963

jakey1988

crusty1990

α.

1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 113/1 Alle Statutes of Laborers,..Vitaillers, Servauntz and Vagarauntz, afore this tyme made.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K7^v They runne roging like vagarents vp & downe the countries like maisterlesse men.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 367 [Seamen] are alwaies as vagarants, & in continuall exile.

β. 1452 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 201 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 Alle manere vagraunts, vacabunds and beggers begging oute of the hundred wheras they duelle.1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 3 §6 Yf it shall appear..suche man..to have been a vagraunte and vacabound or ydle parsone.1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. xci. 367 Lest his Bagpipe, Sheephooke, Skrip, and Bottell..By Vagrants (more then many now) might suffer of their stealth.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 392 These then are Vagrants, while the Husbandman fixes himself in the Villages.1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 452 Vagrants who on falsehood live, Skill'd in smooth tales, and artful to deceive.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xvii. 34 The præfect, who seemed to have been designed as a terror only to slaves and vagrants.1832 H. Martineau Ireland 119 The listless or bold expression which characterises vagrants.1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 75 For the able-bodied vagrant, it is well known that the old English laws had no mercy.1884 D. Pae Eustace 57 If you dare to trespass on my grounds..you will be treated as a vagrant or a beggar.

2. One who wanders or roams about; a person who leads a wandering life; a rover.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer

striker1393

roamerc1400

wandererc1440

whirlerc1440

gangrela1450

fluttererc1450

straggler1530

gadlinga1542

ranger1560

rover1568

fugitive1570

rangler1575

fleeter1581

extravagant1583

scatterling1590

vagranta1592

rambler1624

erratic1669

stravaiger1821

multivagant1895

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. G3^v Vagrant go rome and range about the world, And perish as a vagabond on earth.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 59 In about five Days time the three Vagrants, tyr'd with Wandring,..came back.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 212 Unnumber'd Birds glide thro' th' aerial way, Vagrants of air, and unforeboding stray.

a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1772) V. ix. 194 He chose the Israelites, poor vagrants who had not a foot of ground of their own.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 70 Why,..if ages past Led the bold vagrants to so mild a waste;..Why the wild woods for ever must they rove..?

figurative.1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3 We shal not neede trauell farre to seeke instances of such vagrants out of the wayes of God.

3. A wandering or non-sedentary spider (see first quot.).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > non-sedentary

vagrant1815

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. xiii. 423 The former Walckenaer, in his admirable work on spiders, has designated by the name of Vagrants.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xix. 298 There is a very common black and white spider amongst the vagrants.

B. adj.

1. Wandering about without proper means of livelihood; living in vagrancy or idle vagabondage; of or belonging to the class of vagrants or itinerant beggars.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp

vagrant1461

loiteringa1533

way-walkinga1535

roguing1566

roguish1572

vagabondical1576

vagabond1585

vagabondinga1586

land-loping1587

vagrom1600

leap-land1614

vagabondial1615

vaguea1627

gangrel1650

vagabondious1661

going1737

gang-there-out1815

tramping1828

vagabondizing1830

pikey1838

beachcombing1845

runagate1877

going-about1886

bummy1890

α.

1461 Litt. Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 127 Many..of the Kynges liege people..gothe vagaraunt and vnoccupied and may not haue ther labour to ther levyng.

1530 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 §2 Yf any suche ympotent person after the sayde Feast of Seynt Iohn, be vagarant & goo abeggyng.

1530 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 §9 Whypped for a vagarant stronge begger.

1608 F. Bacon Comm. Sol. i, in Wks. (1868) IV. 91 The Indited recusant, the Non Communicant, the vagarant person.

1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 383 Sturdy Roagues and vagarant townsend beggars.

β. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 160 In all which places they mustred souldiors,..entertaining also strangers, and other vagrant and masterlesse men.1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. E1 Current and vagrant..Stockant, whippant Beggars!1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 143 Every vagrant Person may, by the Laws of England, be taken up.1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 149 His house was known to all the vagrant train.a1830 T. Somerville Life & Times (1861) 370 Before the general establishment of poor's-rates, the country was over~run with vagrant beggars.1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 74 An Act to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children.figurative.1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies 252 If we once put Right Reason..by its office.., our inward house will soon lie..free for every vile and vagrant Opinion to take up and dwell therein.

2. figurative. Wandering, straying, roving; inconstant, unsettled, wayward, etc.

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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

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wankleeOE

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loose?c1225

brotelc1315

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unsteadfast1483

vagrantc1522

inconstant1526

alterable?1531

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rolling1561

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transitive1575

voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

huff-puff1582

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vagrant1586

changeful1590

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Protean1594

unstayed1594

swimming1596

anchorless1597

mobilec1600

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uncertain1609

brandling1611

rootless1611

squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

wavy1795

vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

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versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering

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pirooting1958

c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 76 It often happeth, y^t the very face sheweth y^e mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise y^t not withoute som note & reproch of suche vagaraunte mind [etc.].

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3 We haue a wandring and vagrant vaine euen after our calling, and therefore much more before.

1651 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1662) 48 His causality is more vagrant, more lax and general, then to be brought in here.

1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 141 They think that if they were not so strictly restrained from all vagrant Appetites, very few would engage in a married state.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 143. ⁋4 Ambition, Envy, vagrant Desire, or impertinent Mirth will take up our Minds.

1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. Pref. 26 Men daily, hourly sacrifice the greatest known interest, to..any vagrant inclination.

1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 116 Pleasure skin-deep and vagrant, pain heart-felt and long~lasting!

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 154 We wander by forest side or fountain,..following our vagrant fancies.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 542 The offspring of a vagrant and ignoble love.

1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor I. xxiii. 234 A child..with a violent and vagrant temper.

a. Leading a wandering or nomadic life; ranging or roaming from place to place; straying, straggling. Cf. vagant adj. 1.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a way of life

wanderingc1400

walking1491

vagrant1546

unsettled1593

Scenite1600

irresianta1657

nomad1798

nomadical1801

seatless1807

nomadic1818

nomade1819

semi-nomadic1843

nomad-pastoral1880

semi-nomad1948

pred.

1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1894) I. 201 They shulde here and se lernyng in the sayd college, and not to be vagrant abrode in the sayd towne.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iii. 3 The people remained in the woods and mountains, vagarant and dipersed [sic] like the wild beasts.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxii. viii. 889 [They] became vagrant through most parts of the Romaine Empire.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV lxxxii, in Poems (1878) IV. 21 Vagrant as a Rout Possest with feare, led by vnskillfull guides.

1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 232 Ye shall not beg,..Sent with a Pass, and vagrant thro' the land.

attributive.1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 90 Fearing his vagrant sonne might grow too potent..he rowses himselfe.1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xv. 37 A vagrant Zany, of no certain Manger, Who knew not, ere he din'd, or Friend or Stranger.1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxxvii. 83 I amused myself with observing the manners of the vagrant nations.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xxv. 532 The vagrant soldiers were recalled to their standard.1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 68 Without the path of the vagrant savage to guide us.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 630 It might well be..that..regents would continue to administer the government in the name of vagrant and mendicant kings.1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. x. 100 They proved to be a vagrant band, such as..all Italy abounds with.

b. Of animals, birds, etc.

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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > wandering

waff1720

vagrant1743

accidental1821

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. iv. 175 To whom the Monarch of the Gods assign'd Dominion o'er the vagrant, feather'd Race.

1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 396 It becomes a resting place to vagrant birds.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 53 [The goat is] lively, capricious, and vagrant: it is not easily confined to its flock.., and loves to stray remote from the rest.

1817 W. Wordsworth Vernal Ode 90 The soft murmur of the vagrant Bee.

1855 Poultry Chron. 3 562 In one case two swarms, both of them vagrant swarms, took possession of the same hive.

c. Of plants: Rambling or straggling in growth or habit; straying. Also of hair.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping

running1548

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flat1578

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upcreeping1611

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scansory1657

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repent1669

scandenta1682

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reptile1727

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prostrate1773

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decumbent1789

travelling1822

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humifuse1854

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amphibryous1866

humistratous1880

climbing1882

clambering1883

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > not styled

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1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xlix, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 25 And sometimes we enrich gray stems, with twined And vagrant ivy.

1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 44 The vagrant Vines that wandered, Seeking the sunshine, round and round.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. xi. 265 She had..a quantity of vagrant brown hair.

4. Of or belonging to a vagrant or wanderer; characterized by, peculiar to, devoted or given up to, vagrancy or wandering.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > inclined to or characterized by wandering

wancraunt1422

roving1566

runabout1573

wandering1582

vagrant1583

gaddy1637

outward-bound1743

gadabout1753

free-ranging1841

planeticose1849

knockabout1886

picaresque1959

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. M4^v Doe you allow of that vagarant ministerie, which is in manie countries..sprong vp of late, to the discredite of the Gospell of Iesus Christ?

1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xix. f. 72^v The worde Turke signifieth a shepheard, or one that foloweth a vagrant, and wilde kinde of life.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 665 The Ethiopians..liued before a vagrant life, like the Nomades of olde.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lvi. 8 Paraphr.) 286 Thou knowest the dayes of my exile, and vagrant condition.

1709 M. Prior Henry & Emma 304 That Beauteous Emma vagrant Courses took; Her Father's House and civil Life forsook.

1775 S. Johnson Let. 27 May (1992) II. 213 Because it will be inconvenient to send them after me in my vagrant state.

1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 22 But the age being now past of vagrant excursion.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 212 Persons whose life has been passed in vagrant diplomacy.

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason xv. 275 Keeping but vagrant life for thine own part, Of what thou boastest with the Gods to share.

a. Of things: Not fixed or stationary; moving hither and thither; spec. in Pathology of certain blood-cells.

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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

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fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

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Protean1594

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mutative1818

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teetotum1819

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sensitive1828

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unengrafted1829

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proteiform1833

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tottlish1835

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versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [adjective] > of blood-cells: not fixed

vagrant1899

1586 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. i. i Ere he march in Asia, or display His vagrant Ensigne in the Persean fields.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 298 Mercurie..is in truth a fugitiue vagrant substance.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xxvi. 3 Bear them, ye vagrant winds, away.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xxxiv. 14 The ponderous earth, and vagrant streams.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 417 When we consider the motion of those vagrant worlds, the comets.

1800 T. Moore tr. Anacreon Odes lviii. 10 Then I loose all such clinging cares, And cast them to the vagrant airs.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xv. 13 A vagrant ray of sunlight patching the shade of the tall houses.

1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 203 The lofty ice mountains that wander like vagrant islands along the coast of America.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 497 The fixed cells of the tissue to a great extent appear to supplant in its office the vagrant leucocyte.

†b. Of a disease or pain: Not local or confined to one particular part. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > spreading or invasive

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walkinga1398

erratic1547

accessive1575

errant1621

vagrant1656

metastatic1822

ambulant1828

aggressive1851

proliferous1874

proliferative1888

metastasizing1906

invasive1926

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 24 Arthritis that is vagrant is Scorbutical, and a pain of divers parts.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iv. 126 M. N. was suddenly taken with most sharp vagrant pains.

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4. Ornithology. A bird that is encountered outside its normal area of distribution or migration; spec. (in the U.K.), one that has been recorded fewer than twenty times in the British Isles.

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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > that is found outside normal area of migration

accidental1878

vagrant1920

1920 H. F. Witherby et al. Pract. Handbk. Brit. Birds I. 140 The Lapland Bunting...has occurred [in] many English counties as vagrant.

1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 337 The snow finch has occurred as a vagrant in several other countries of eastern Europe.

1983 Birds Spring 15/2 The vagrant from the Continent, was found sheltering under a car. Many birds are blown off course during gales.

1988 Bird Watching Aug. 46/2 Returning migrants are beginning to appear and by the end of the month we could witness good seabird movements and the first North American vagrant.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	vagrant
释义	vagrantn.adj. Brit. /ˈveɪɡr(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈveɪɡrənt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s vagaraunt(e, 1500s–1600s vagarant, 1500s vagarent. β. 1500s– vagrant, 1600s vag'rant. Etymology: Late Middle English vagraunt , vagaraunt , perhaps an alteration of earlier Anglo-Norman wakerant (wacrant , walcrant ), through association with Latin vagārī : compare vagabond adj. and n. The Anglo-Norman word is employed in the sense of ‘vagrant’ in enactments of the 14th cent. A. n. 1. One of a class of persons who having no settled home or regular work wander from place to place, and maintain themselves by begging or in some other disreputable or dishonest way; an itinerant beggar or tramp.Vagrants have been the subject of many legal enactments, and by the Act 5 Geo. IV, c. 83 (the Vagrancy Act of 1824, now amended), they were divided into ‘idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, incorrigible rogues and other vagrants’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun] > vagrant vagrant1444 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person brethelingc1275 filec1300 dogc1330 ribald1340 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 triflera1382 brothelc1390 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 vagrant1444 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 carrion1547 slim1548 unsel155. pelf1551 shifterc1562 rag1566 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 nothing-worth1580 baggage1594 roly-poly1602 bash-rag1603 arrant1605 ragabash?1609 flabergullion1611 hilding1611 hard bargain1612 slubberdegullion1612 vauneant1621 knick-knacker1622 idle-pack1624 slabberdegullion1653 thimble-maker1654 whiffler1659 never-do-well1664 good-for-nought1671 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shabaroon1699 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 hallion1789 scamp1808 waffie1808 ne'er-do-good1814 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 good-for-nothing1847 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 toe-rag1875 rodney1877 toe-ragger1896 low-lifer1902 punk1904 lowlife1909 ringtail1916 git1939 no-hoper1944 schlub1950 piss artist1962 dead leg1964 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 α. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 113/1 Alle Statutes of Laborers,..Vitaillers, Servauntz and Vagarauntz, afore this tyme made. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K7^v They runne roging like vagarents vp & downe the countries like maisterlesse men. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 367 [Seamen] are alwaies as vagarants, & in continuall exile. β. 1452 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 201 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 Alle manere vagraunts, vacabunds and beggers begging oute of the hundred wheras they duelle.1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 3 §6 Yf it shall appear..suche man..to have been a vagraunte and vacabound or ydle parsone.1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. xci. 367 Lest his Bagpipe, Sheephooke, Skrip, and Bottell..By Vagrants (more then many now) might suffer of their stealth.1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 392 These then are Vagrants, while the Husbandman fixes himself in the Villages.1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 452 Vagrants who on falsehood live, Skill'd in smooth tales, and artful to deceive.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xvii. 34 The præfect, who seemed to have been designed as a terror only to slaves and vagrants.1832 H. Martineau Ireland 119 The listless or bold expression which characterises vagrants.1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 75 For the able-bodied vagrant, it is well known that the old English laws had no mercy.1884 D. Pae Eustace 57 If you dare to trespass on my grounds..you will be treated as a vagrant or a beggar. 2. One who wanders or roams about; a person who leads a wandering life; a rover. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. G3^v Vagrant go rome and range about the world, And perish as a vagabond on earth. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 59 In about five Days time the three Vagrants, tyr'd with Wandring,..came back. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. ii. 212 Unnumber'd Birds glide thro' th' aerial way, Vagrants of air, and unforeboding stray. a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1772) V. ix. 194 He chose the Israelites, poor vagrants who had not a foot of ground of their own. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 70 Why,..if ages past Led the bold vagrants to so mild a waste;..Why the wild woods for ever must they rove..? figurative.1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3 We shal not neede trauell farre to seeke instances of such vagrants out of the wayes of God. 3. A wandering or non-sedentary spider (see first quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > non-sedentary vagrant1815 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. xiii. 423 The former Walckenaer, in his admirable work on spiders, has designated by the name of Vagrants. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xix. 298 There is a very common black and white spider amongst the vagrants. B. adj. 1. Wandering about without proper means of livelihood; living in vagrancy or idle vagabondage; of or belonging to the class of vagrants or itinerant beggars. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp vagrant1461 loiteringa1533 way-walkinga1535 roguing1566 roguish1572 vagabondical1576 vagabond1585 vagabondinga1586 land-loping1587 vagrom1600 leap-land1614 vagabondial1615 vaguea1627 gangrel1650 vagabondious1661 going1737 gang-there-out1815 tramping1828 vagabondizing1830 pikey1838 beachcombing1845 runagate1877 going-about1886 bummy1890 α. 1461 Litt. Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 127 Many..of the Kynges liege people..gothe vagaraunt and vnoccupied and may not haue ther labour to ther levyng. 1530 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 §2 Yf any suche ympotent person after the sayde Feast of Seynt Iohn, be vagarant & goo abeggyng. 1530 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 §9 Whypped for a vagarant stronge begger. 1608 F. Bacon Comm. Sol. i, in Wks. (1868) IV. 91 The Indited recusant, the Non Communicant, the vagarant person. 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 383 Sturdy Roagues and vagarant townsend beggars. β. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 160 In all which places they mustred souldiors,..entertaining also strangers, and other vagrant and masterlesse men.1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. E1 Current and vagrant..Stockant, whippant Beggars!1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 143 Every vagrant Person may, by the Laws of England, be taken up.1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 149 His house was known to all the vagrant train.a1830 T. Somerville Life & Times (1861) 370 Before the general establishment of poor's-rates, the country was over~run with vagrant beggars.1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 74 An Act to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children.figurative.1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies 252 If we once put Right Reason..by its office.., our inward house will soon lie..free for every vile and vagrant Opinion to take up and dwell therein. 2. figurative. Wandering, straying, roving; inconstant, unsettled, wayward, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering wanderingc1000 erringa1340 waggeringa1382 vagant1382 vagabond1426 erroneousa1464 fugitive1481 wavering1487 vagrantc1522 gadding1545 roaming1566 roving1576 straggling1589 rambling?1609 wagand1614 wheelinga1616 gadling1616 vagring1619 erratical1620 vaguing1627 erratic1656 planetical1656 waif1724 vagrarious1795 stravaiging1825 vagarious1882 pirooting1958 c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 76 It often happeth, y^t the very face sheweth y^e mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise y^t not withoute som note & reproch of suche vagaraunte mind [etc.]. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3 We haue a wandring and vagrant vaine euen after our calling, and therefore much more before. 1651 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1662) 48 His causality is more vagrant, more lax and general, then to be brought in here. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 141 They think that if they were not so strictly restrained from all vagrant Appetites, very few would engage in a married state. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 143. ⁋4 Ambition, Envy, vagrant Desire, or impertinent Mirth will take up our Minds. 1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. Pref. 26 Men daily, hourly sacrifice the greatest known interest, to..any vagrant inclination. 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 116 Pleasure skin-deep and vagrant, pain heart-felt and long~lasting! 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 154 We wander by forest side or fountain,..following our vagrant fancies. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 542 The offspring of a vagrant and ignoble love. 1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor I. xxiii. 234 A child..with a violent and vagrant temper. 3. a. Leading a wandering or nomadic life; ranging or roaming from place to place; straying, straggling. Cf. vagant adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a way of life wanderingc1400 walking1491 vagrant1546 unsettled1593 Scenite1600 irresianta1657 nomad1798 nomadical1801 seatless1807 nomadic1818 nomade1819 semi-nomadic1843 nomad-pastoral1880 semi-nomad1948 pred. 1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1894) I. 201 They shulde here and se lernyng in the sayd college, and not to be vagrant abrode in the sayd towne. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iii. 3 The people remained in the woods and mountains, vagarant and dipersed [sic] like the wild beasts. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxii. viii. 889 [They] became vagrant through most parts of the Romaine Empire. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV lxxxii, in Poems (1878) IV. 21 Vagrant as a Rout Possest with feare, led by vnskillfull guides. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 232 Ye shall not beg,..Sent with a Pass, and vagrant thro' the land. attributive.1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 90 Fearing his vagrant sonne might grow too potent..he rowses himselfe.1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xv. 37 A vagrant Zany, of no certain Manger, Who knew not, ere he din'd, or Friend or Stranger.1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xxxvii. 83 I amused myself with observing the manners of the vagrant nations.1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) II. xxv. 532 The vagrant soldiers were recalled to their standard.1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 68 Without the path of the vagrant savage to guide us.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 630 It might well be..that..regents would continue to administer the government in the name of vagrant and mendicant kings.1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. x. 100 They proved to be a vagrant band, such as..all Italy abounds with. b. Of animals, birds, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > wandering waff1720 vagrant1743 accidental1821 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. iv. 175 To whom the Monarch of the Gods assign'd Dominion o'er the vagrant, feather'd Race. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 396 It becomes a resting place to vagrant birds. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 53 [The goat is] lively, capricious, and vagrant: it is not easily confined to its flock.., and loves to stray remote from the rest. 1817 W. Wordsworth Vernal Ode 90 The soft murmur of the vagrant Bee. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 562 In one case two swarms, both of them vagrant swarms, took possession of the same hive. c. Of plants: Rambling or straggling in growth or habit; straying. Also of hair. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > climbing, spreading, or creeping running1548 spreading1560 flat1578 ramping1578 wandering1590 upcreeping1611 gadding1638 rambling1653 obsequious1657 reptant1657 scansive1657 scansory1657 procumbent1668 repent1669 scandenta1682 supine1686 scrambling1688 creeping1697 sarmentous1721 reptile1727 sarmentose1760 prostrate1773 trailing1785 decumbent1789 travelling1822 vagrant1827 sarmentaceous1830 humifuse1854 sarmentiferous1858 amphibryous1866 humistratous1880 climbing1882 clambering1883 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [adjective] > not styled plainc1330 dishevelled1493 unshed1596 detressed1603 scattered1785 uproarious1836 vagrant1862 unsecured1882 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xlix, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 25 And sometimes we enrich gray stems, with twined And vagrant ivy. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 44 The vagrant Vines that wandered, Seeking the sunshine, round and round. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. xi. 265 She had..a quantity of vagrant brown hair. 4. Of or belonging to a vagrant or wanderer; characterized by, peculiar to, devoted or given up to, vagrancy or wandering. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > inclined to or characterized by wandering wancraunt1422 roving1566 runabout1573 wandering1582 vagrant1583 gaddy1637 outward-bound1743 gadabout1753 free-ranging1841 planeticose1849 knockabout1886 picaresque1959 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. M4^v Doe you allow of that vagarant ministerie, which is in manie countries..sprong vp of late, to the discredite of the Gospell of Iesus Christ? 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xix. f. 72^v The worde Turke signifieth a shepheard, or one that foloweth a vagrant, and wilde kinde of life. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 665 The Ethiopians..liued before a vagrant life, like the Nomades of olde. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lvi. 8 Paraphr.) 286 Thou knowest the dayes of my exile, and vagrant condition. 1709 M. Prior Henry & Emma 304 That Beauteous Emma vagrant Courses took; Her Father's House and civil Life forsook. 1775 S. Johnson Let. 27 May (1992) II. 213 Because it will be inconvenient to send them after me in my vagrant state. 1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 22 But the age being now past of vagrant excursion. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 212 Persons whose life has been passed in vagrant diplomacy. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason xv. 275 Keeping but vagrant life for thine own part, Of what thou boastest with the Gods to share. 5. a. Of things: Not fixed or stationary; moving hither and thither; spec. in Pathology of certain blood-cells. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [adjective] > of blood-cells: not fixed vagrant1899 1586 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. i. i Ere he march in Asia, or display His vagrant Ensigne in the Persean fields. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 298 Mercurie..is in truth a fugitiue vagrant substance. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xxvi. 3 Bear them, ye vagrant winds, away. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xxxiv. 14 The ponderous earth, and vagrant streams. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 417 When we consider the motion of those vagrant worlds, the comets. 1800 T. Moore tr. Anacreon Odes lviii. 10 Then I loose all such clinging cares, And cast them to the vagrant airs. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xv. 13 A vagrant ray of sunlight patching the shade of the tall houses. 1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 203 The lofty ice mountains that wander like vagrant islands along the coast of America. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 497 The fixed cells of the tissue to a great extent appear to supplant in its office the vagrant leucocyte. †b. Of a disease or pain: Not local or confined to one particular part. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > spreading or invasive runninga1382 walkinga1398 erratic1547 accessive1575 errant1621 vagrant1656 metastatic1822 ambulant1828 aggressive1851 proliferous1874 proliferative1888 metastasizing1906 invasive1926 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 24 Arthritis that is vagrant is Scorbutical, and a pain of divers parts. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iv. 126 M. N. was suddenly taken with most sharp vagrant pains. Draft additions 1997 4. Ornithology. A bird that is encountered outside its normal area of distribution or migration; spec. (in the U.K.), one that has been recorded fewer than twenty times in the British Isles. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [noun] > migration > that is found outside normal area of migration accidental1878 vagrant1920 1920 H. F. Witherby et al. Pract. Handbk. Brit. Birds I. 140 The Lapland Bunting...has occurred [in] many English counties as vagrant. 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 337 The snow finch has occurred as a vagrant in several other countries of eastern Europe. 1983 Birds Spring 15/2 The vagrant from the Continent, was found sheltering under a car. Many birds are blown off course during gales. 1988 Bird Watching Aug. 46/2 Returning migrants are beginning to appear and by the end of the month we could witness good seabird movements and the first North American vagrant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). vagrantv. Brit. /ˈveɪɡr(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈveɪɡrənt/ Etymology: < vagrant n. rare. intransitive. To behave like a vagrant; to ramble or roam. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander wharvec890 woreOE wandera1000 rengec1230 wagc1325 roamc1330 errc1374 raikc1390 ravec1390 rumblec1400 rollc1405 railc1425 roit1440 waverc1440 rangea1450 rove1481 to-waver1487 vaguea1525 evague1533 rangle1567 to go a-strayinga1586 vagary1598 divagate1599 obambulate1614 vagitate1614 ramble1615 divage1623 pererrate1623 squander1630 peramble1632 rink1710 ratch1801 browse1803 vagrate1807 bum1857 piroot1858 scamander1864 truck1864 bat1867 vagrant1886 float1901 vagulate1918 pissant1945 1886 R. Broughton Dr. Cupid I. ix. 156 The boy is out—..vagranting after his kind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1444v.1886
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