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noun

Vagabond 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. "A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be." 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.

verb

Vagabond v. i. 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."

adjective

Vagabond adj.

Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile."

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."

Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.

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Etymology of 'Vagabond'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vagabond" Quotes from Famous Books

... "and that abominable mischance, that foul scandalous deed of a vagabond, will be the death of me; I know it as well as you. I shall not hold out ...

— The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano - Tales from the German of Tieck • Ludwig Tieck

... their repast on the deck; the men keep an eye to windward and a hand on the tiller; the mother knots the cord that goes around the baby's waist into an iron ring, and, feeling secure against the bantling's falling overboard, chats sociably, occasionally enforcing a mild reproof to a vagabond son by a tap on the head with her chopstick. There is but one dish, rice, of a very ordinary sort and of a pink color, but all seem to thrive upon it. The meal over, the men smoke their pipes, and the wife washes her cooking ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various

... you no, boy," he said impatiently. "It would be unjust to you to encourage you to lead such a vagabond life as mine. Say no more about it, sir," he added harshly. ...

— Nat the Naturalist - A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas • G. Manville Fenn

... nothing is known until the end of the story. Hannibal is charmed into tolerance of the Judge's picturesque vices, while Miss Betty, lovely and capricious, is charmed into placing all her affairs, both material and sentimental, in the hands of this delightful old vagabond. ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... mercantile career had ended, and forthwith I took to the range as a preacher's son takes to vice. By the time I was twenty there was no better cow-hand in the entire country. I could, besides, speak Spanish and play the fiddle, and thought nothing of riding thirty miles to a dance. The vagabond temperament of the range ...

— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams

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