Thesaurus: vagabond

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1. a. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
2. a. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
3. a. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
4. n. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
5. v. i. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
6. adj. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
7. adj. continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
8. n. anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
9. n. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
10. v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
11. 1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate. Milton. 3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12. Note: In English and American law, vagabond is used in bad sense, denoting one who is without a home; a strolling, idle, worthless person. Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and alehouses, and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they go." In American law, the term vagrant is employed in the same sense. Cf Rogue, n., 1. Burrill. Bouvier. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. On every part my vagabonding sight Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight. Drummond.
12. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling,or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honestlivelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12.