Shak.
To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of
school without leave. Sir T. Browne
Tru"ant, a. Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and
shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side.
Trumbull.
Tru"ant, v. i. [Cf. F. truander.] To idle away time; to loiter, or
wander; to play the truant. Shak.
By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental
grounds of saving knowledge.
Lowell.