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Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, v. i.
To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
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On every part my vagabonding sight
Did cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight.
--Drummond.
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Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, a. [F., fr. L. vagabundus, from vagari to
stroll about, from vagus strolling. See {Vague}.]
1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation;
wandering. "Vagabond exile." --Shak.
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2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to
and fro.
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To heaven their prayers
Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds
Blown vagabond or frustrate. --Milton.
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3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
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Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, 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.
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A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. --Gen. iv. 12.
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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.
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