Word Finder - vagrant

definition

A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

synonyms

• itinerant
• rover

definition

(specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

example

Every morning before work, I see that poor vagrant around the neighbourhood begging for food.

synonyms

• drifter
• hobo

definition

Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

definition

An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

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

An able-bodied parent who does not work when he has the opportunity, unless "idle under strike orders, or lock-outs," and who hires out his minor children, is declared a vagrant and may be fined $50o and imprisoned or sentenced to hard labour for not more than six months.

The interior of Novaya Zemlya shows hardly a trace of animal life, save here and there a vagrant bird, a few lemmings, an ice-fox, a brown or white bear, and at times immigrant reindeer.

I was surprised to find that it is possible for a vagrant species to be included in the list.

As for priestly absolution, if even-handed justice were meted out to all, the Vagrant Act would suffice to deal with it.

In addition a number of vagrant species have ben recorded over the years.

But the bird of this area tho was a White tailed plover, an Asian vagrant and only the eighth Hungarian record.

There are more native species of bat in the UK -- 16 breeding and several vagrant visitors -- than any other group of mammals.

It is also a good site for vagrant waders (including, in recent years, Terek Sandpiper and Pectoral Sandpiper).

And landowners were empowered to seize all vagrant able-bodied men, and to compel them to work at the statutory wages.

His father, who was an attorney of substance, had a distaste still stronger for so vagrant a profession as letters were in that day.

In 1878, vagrant wards were added at each end of the front of the building 's frontage.

This vagrant bird has been reported on six occasions from Sussex during the 1980's.

The name itself is derived from the cloth bundle vagrant wanderers, otherwise known as tramps or hobos, tied their belongings in and often attached to a stick for transport.

Force was met with force; the Circumcelliones, bands of fugitive slaves and vagrant (circum cellas) peasants, attached themselves to the Donatists, and their violence reached such a height as to threaten civil war.

C5 Vagrant naturalized species - species from established naturalized species - species from established naturalized populations abroad, e.g. possibly some Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurring in Britain.

C5 Vagrant naturalized species - species from established naturalized populations abroad, e.g. possibly some Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurring in Britain.

They stood aside while my planet was overrun by the Council-sanctioned vagrant Yirkin forces!

In the taverns and low places of amusement haunted by those lettered songsters, on the open road and in the forests trodden by their vagrant feet, the deities of Greece and Rome were not in exile, but at home within the hearts of living men.

Industrial schools are chiefly for vagrant and neglected children and children not convicted of theft.

On the one hand, soul is corporeal, else it would have no real existence, would be incapable of extension in three dimensions (and therefore of equable diffusion all over the body), incapable of holding the body together, as the Stoics contended that it does, herein presenting a sharp contrast to the Epicurean tenet that it is the body which confines and shelters the light vagrant atoms of soul.

The chief institution is that at Veenhuizen, which occupies some 3000 acres of land, and where some 4000 men of the vagrant class are detained for periods varying from not less than six months to not more than three years.