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.
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.
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.
Vag"a*bond`age (?), n. [Cf. F. vagabondage.] The condition of a
vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Vag"a*bond`ism (?), n. Vagabondage.
Vag"a*bond`ize (?), v. i. To play the vagabond; to wander about in
idleness.
Vag"a*bond`ry (?), n. Vagabondage.
Va"gal (?), a. [See Vagus.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the vagus, or
pneumogastric nerves; pneumogastric.
Va"gan*cy (?), n. [From L. vagans, p. pr. See Vagantes.] A wandering;
vagrancy. [Obs.]
A thousand vagancies of glory and desight.
Milton.
||Va*gan"tes (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. vagans, p. pr. of vagari to
||stroll or wander.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of spiders, comprising some of
||those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run
||with agility, and chase and seize their prey.
||
Va*ga"ri*ous (?), a. Given to, or characterized by, vagaries;
capricious; whimsical; crochety.
Va*ga"ry (?), n.; pl. Vagaries (#). [L. vagari to stroll about. See
Vague.]