1. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took.

Prior.

While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live.

Macaulay.

2. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a

vagrant beggar.

Va"grant, n. One who strolls from place to place; one who has no

settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible

rogue; a vagabond.

Vagrants and outlaws shall offend thy view.

Prior.

Va"grant*ly, adv. In a vagrant manner.

Va"grant*ness, n. State of being vagrant; vagrancy.

Vague (vg), a. [Compar. Vaguer (vg"r); superl. Vaguest.] [F. vague, or

L. vagus. See Vague, v. i.]

1. Wandering; vagrant; vagabond. [Archaic] "To set upon the vague

villains." Hayward.

She danced along with vague, regardless eyes.

Keats.

2. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague

idea; a vague proposition.

This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague

ebullition of feeling.

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