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   vagabond
         adj 1: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community;
                  "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn:
                  {rootless}, {vagabond}]
         2: 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}, {vagrant}]
         n 1: anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed
               place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"
         2: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means
            of support [syn: {vagrant}, {drifter}, {floater}, {vagabond}]
         v 1: 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"
               [syn: {roll}, {wander}, {swan}, {stray}, {tramp}, {roam},
               {cast}, {ramble}, {rove}, {range}, {drift}, {vagabond}]

English Dictionary: vase-fine by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vagabondage
n
  1. travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
    Synonym(s): wandering, roving, vagabondage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vase vine
n
  1. scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals
    Synonym(s): leather flower, vase-fine, vase vine, Clematis viorna
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vase-fine
n
  1. scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals
    Synonym(s): leather flower, vase-fine, vase vine, Clematis viorna
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vesuvian
n
  1. a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone
    Synonym(s): vesuvianite, vesuvian, idocrase
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vesuvianite
n
  1. a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone
    Synonym(s): vesuvianite, vesuvian, idocrase
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"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. [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"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.
  
               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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vagabondage \Vag"a*bond`age\, n. [Cf. F. vagabondage.]
      The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering
      about in idleness; vagrancy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vagabondism \Vag"a*bond`ism\, n.
      Vagabondage.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vagabondize \Vag"a*bond`ize\, v. i.
      To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vagabondry \Vag"a*bond`ry\, n.
      Vagabondage.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vesbium \Ves"bi*um\, n. [NL., from L. Vesuvius, contr. Vesbius,
      Vesuvius.] (Chem.)
      A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said
      by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish
      incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in
      1631.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vesuvian \Ve*su"vi*an\, n. [G. vesuvian. See {Vesuvian}, a.]
      (Min.)
      Vesuvianite.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vesuvian \Ve*su"vi*an\, a. [Cf. F. V[82]suvien, It. Vesuviano.]
      Of or pertaining to Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vesuvian \Ve*su"vi*an\, n.
      A kind of match or fusee for lighting cigars, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vesuvianite \Ve*su"vi*an*ite\, n. (Min.)
      A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive,
      of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It
      is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia,
      and is common at Vesuvius. Also called {idocrase}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vesuvine \Ve*su"vine\, n.
      A trade name for a brown dyestuff obtained from certain basic
      azo compounds of benzene; -- called also {Bismarck brown},
      {Manchester brown}, etc.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   VAX/VMS
  
      {VMS}
  
  

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").
     
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