1. (n.) A wanderer with no fixed dwelling, and usually without the means of honest livelihood\; a vagrant; a tramp.

2. (a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.

3. (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

4. (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

5. (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

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