Vagabond (?), 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.[1913 Webster]
2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.[1913 Webster]
To heaven their prayersFlew up, nor missed the way, by envious windsBlown vagabond or frustrate.
3. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.[1913 Webster]
Vagabond, 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.[1913 Webster]
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
&hand_; 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.[1913 Webster]
Vagabond, v. i. To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.[1913 Webster]
On every part my vagabonding sightDid cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight.