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Vagrant   /vˈeɪgrənt/   Listen
noun
Vagrant  n.  One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond. "Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view."


adjective
Vagrant  adj.  
1.
Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. "That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took." "While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in love."
2.
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.





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"Vagrant" Quotes from Famous Books



... please in their reports to their societies, they make no converts to their faith, except the pretended ones of vagrant and vagabond drunkards, who are ...
— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat
... Reaction and pessimism; Literature and society; Gorki's youth; Hard times; A vagrant life; Journalist days; Rapid success; The new heroes; Creatures once men; Vagabond ...
— Maxim Gorki • Hans Ostwald
... vagrant feet of youth are the roads of Manhattan beset "with pitfall and with gin." But the civic guardians of the young have made themselves acquainted with the snares of the wicked, and most of the dangerous paths are ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... was asleep. Her book slid to the floor, I shaded her face with my green umbrella, pulled down her muslin frock over her pretty ankles, and gave myself up to vagrant thoughts ...
— Ladies-In-Waiting • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... to the frontier, had not been long in the army. He and Cumnor had enlisted in a happy-go-lucky manner together at Grant, in Arizona, when the General was elsewhere. Discipline was galling to his vagrant spirit, and after each pay-day he had generally slept off the effects in the guard-house, going there for other offences between-whiles; but he was not of the stuff that deserts; also, he was excellent tempered, and his captain liked him for the way ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister


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