vaguern.
Scottish.
An idle stroller or wanderer; a vagrant.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wandering idly > one who
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15.. Aberd. Reg. (Jam.) Vaigares, adhantaris of ailhoussis.
1647 R. Baillie Let. 20 Aug. (1841) III. 15 An act against vagers from their own ministers.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 195 They were forbidden..to be perturbers or vaguers, wandering from place to place.
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