Vagabond : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Vagabond	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Vagabond
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vagabond adj wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" Synonym(s): rootless, vagabond continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" Synonym(s): aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant n anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea" a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support Synonym(s): vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond v move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" Synonym(s): roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, 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. --Drummond.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vagabond \Vag"abond\, 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. [bd]Vagabond* exile.[b8] --Shak. 2. 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. --Milton. 3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vagabond \Vag"abond\, 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. --Gen. iv. 12. 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 [bd]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.[b8] In American law, the term vagrant is employed in the same sense. Cf {Rogue}, n., 1. --Burrill. --Bouvier.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Vagabond from Lat. vagabundus, "a wanderer," "a fugitive;" not used opprobriously (Gen. 4:12, R.V., "wanderer;" Ps. 109:10; Acts 19:13, R.V., "strolling").