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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vagrant \Va"grant\, adjective [Probably fr. OF. waucrant, wacrant, p. p. of waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander (probably of Teutonic origin), but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. Cf. {Vagary}.]
1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. --Prior.
While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. --Macaulay.
2. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vagrant \Va"grant\, noun 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. --Prior.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vagrant
adjective: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: {aimless}, {drifting}, {floating}, {vagabond}]
noun: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: {drifter}, {floater}, {vagabond}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
216 Moby Thesaurus words for "vagrant": Arab, Bowery bum, aberrant, aberrative, adrift, afloat, aimless, alternating, amorphous, arbitrary, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bo, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, capricious, changeable, changeful, circuitous, circumforaneous, cranky, crotchety, departing, derelict, desultory, deviable, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devil, devious, digressive, discursive, divagatory, dizzy, dogie, drifter, drifting, drunkard, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flaky, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating, fluctuating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, freakish, fugitive, gadding, gamin, gamine, giddy, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, guttersnipe, gypsy-like, gypsyish, harebrained, hobo, homeless waif, human wreck, humorsome, idler, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect, infirm, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, kinky, labyrinthine, landloper, landloping, lazzarone, loafer, losel, lowlife, maggoty, mauvais sujet, mazy, mean wretch, meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, moody, motiveless, mucker, mudlark, no-good, nomad, nomadic, notional, out-of-the-way, pauvre diable, perambulatory, peripatetic, petulant, piker, pilgarlic, planetary, poor creature, poor devil, quirky, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, rambling, ranging, restless, roaming, rounder, roving, sad case, sad sack, sauntering, scatterbrained, serpentine, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, ski bum, skid-row bum, snaky, spasmodic, spineless, stiff, straggling, stray, straying, street Arab, street urchin, strolling, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, swerving, tatterdemalion, temperamental, tennis bum, traipsing, tramp, transient, transitory, transmigratory, truant, turning, turnpiker, twisting, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unfixed, unpredictable, unreasonable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, urchin, vacillating, vag, vagabond, vagarious, variable, vaurien, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, waif, waifs and strays, wandering, wanton, wastrel, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, winding, wishy-washy, worthless fellow, wretch, zigzag
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