1. (n.) One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

2. (a.) Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.

3. (v. i.) To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.

4. (v. t.) To idle away; to waste.

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