Crossword clues for vagabond
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vagabond \Vag"a*bond\, a. [F., fr. L. vagabundus, from vagari to stroll about, from vagus strolling. See Vague.]
Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. ``Vagabond exile.''
--Shak.-
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate.
--Milton. Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
Vagabond \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. Note: 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.,
--Burrill.
--Bouvier.
Vagabond \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (earlier vacabond, c.1400), from Old French vagabond, vacabond "wandering, unsteady" (14c.), from Late Latin vagabundus "wandering, strolling about," from Latin vagari "wander" (from vagus "wandering, undecided;" see vague) + gerundive suffix -bundus.
c.1400, earlier wagabund (in a criminal indictment from 1311); see vagabond (adj.). Despite the earliest use, in Middle English often merely "one who is without a settled home, a vagrant" but not necessarily in a bad sense. Notion of "idle, disreputable person" predominated from 17c.
Wiktionary
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. n. 1 A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time. 2 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 hobo. v
To roam, as a vagabond
WordNet
adj. wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless]
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagrant]
n. anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea"
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater]
v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift]
Wikipedia
Vagabond may refer to:
- An itinerant person
Vagabond (, "without roof nor law") is a 1985 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. It describes the story of a young woman, a vagabond, who wanders through French wine country one winter. The film was the 36th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 1,080,143 admissions in France.
- redirect Vagrancy (people)
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Vagabond was a Norwegian melodic hard rock band fronted by guitarplayer Ronni Le Tekrø from TNT, singer Jørn Lande and keyboardist * Dag Stokke .
Their first release was the self-titled album Vagabond in 1994, followed by a second and final release, A Huge Fan Of Life in 1995.
- Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: V#Vagabond (Scourge of the Underworld V)
Category:Characters created by Mark Gruenwald Category:Characters created by Paul Neary Category:Comics characters introduced in 1987
Vagabond is a yacht specifically designed to sail in icy waters. In 2001, she was the first boat to go through the North-East passage without wintering. In 2002, she came back to France via the North-west Passage, completing the first circumnavigation around the Arctic ocean. Vagabond now serves as a logistic support for scientific expeditions in the Arctic.
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi.
It has been serialized in Weekly Morning magazine since 1998, with the chapters collected into 37 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha as of July 2014. Viz Media licensed the series for English release in North America and has published 37 volumes as of April 2015. Vagabond won a 2000 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2002 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and has sold more than 82 million copies worldwide.
The Vagabond is a 3.7m fibreglass sailing dinghy is sailed in Australia . It is often used as a training boat due to its simplicity but also has the option of a symmetrical spinnaker. It was at one time made by De Havilland Marine Yacht Division. Series II, with a white top, flip up high aspect centreboard, and fully battened mainsail are currently being manufactured at Noosa in Queensland. There are a number of race events organised by the Vagabond Class Association including youth, state and national titles. This dinghy can be confused with the Vagabond 14 made by Hobie Cat and now called either a Holder 14 or Hobie-one. Jack Holt also designed a "Vagabond" dinghy of about the same size.
Vagabond were a UK band and signed to the newly reformed Geffen Records UK.
The band released their debut album, You Don't Know the Half of It on 17 August 2009. You Don't Know the Half of It was produced by Xenomania, who have previously worked with Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Cher, Gabriella Cilmi and Kylie Minogue. The Guardian featured Vagabond as "New Band Of The Day" on 20 February 2009, and the newspaper also declared "They could be the world's biggest new band."
" Sweat (Until The Morning)" was released as the first single from the album as a free download on 8 June 2009, followed by " Don't Wanna Run No More" which was released on 3 August 2009. You Don't Know The Half Of It was released on 17 August 2009.
Vagabond have been touring in the UK in 2009 and in addition to doing their own headline shows, have supported artists such as James Morrison, McFly and The Script. Vagabond also performed at the Glastonbury, T in the Park and V music festivals in the UK. On 16 February 2010 the band announced they had split amicably.
'Vagabond ' is a travel magazine published in Stockholm, Sweden. The magazine is one of the earliest travel magazines in the country and publishes travel-related articles.
Vagabond is the fifth album by folk duo Spiers and Boden.
Vagabond is the second novel in The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell. Set during the first stage of the Hundred Years War, it follows Thomas of Hookton's quest to find the Holy Grail, a relic which will grant decisive victory to the possessor.
Vagabond is the tenth album by Eddi Reader released in the UK on 3 February 2014.
Vagabond is a studio album by Lasse Stefanz released on 26 June 2007. The album was awarded a Guldklaven Award in the "Album of the Year" category during the Swedish Dansband Week in Malung.
Vagabond (Persian: Velgard) is a 1950 Iranian film directed by Mehdi Reisfirooz.
Usage examples of "vagabond".
Shall I war against the Lame One because of the spite of a wandering Caphar vagabond?
I could not deny that Lucrezia spoke very sensibly, and I could easily have bought land in Naples, and lived comfortably on it, but the idea of binding myself down to one place was so contrary to my feelings that I had the good sense to prefer my vagabond life to all the advantages which our union would have given me, and I do not think that Lucrezia altogether disapproved of my resolution.
My Lord Willbewill did also take a notable Diabolonian, whose name was Loose-Foot: this Loose-Foot was a scout to the vagabonds in Mansoul, and that did use to carry tidings out of Mansoul to the camp, and out of the camp to those of the enemies in Mansoul.
The writer said that the slanderers had got the ears of the king, and that I was no longer a persona grata at Court, as he had been assured that the Parisians had burnt me in effigy for my absconding with the lottery money, and that I had been a strolling player in Italy and little better than a vagabond.
He used them on the market-day journeyings, and on summer nights, when the sea wind came sweetly from the broad Firth and the two slept, like vagabonds, on a haycock under the stars.
But various experiences of war, mutilation, slavery, and Vagabonding had made him into a hard man.
Anyone can distinguish between a homeless vagabond of the street and an animal which must have been well treated in a good home, and I believe that experimentation upon a pet animal under any conditions should be forbidden by law.
The use of a peculiar cant phraseology for different classes, it would appear, originated with the Argoliers, a species of French beggars or monkish impostors, who were notorious for every thing that was bad and infamous: these people assumed the form of a regular government, elected a king, established a fixed code of laws, and invented a language peculiar to themselves, constructed probably by some of the debauched and licentious youths, who, abandoning their scholastic studies, associated with these vagabonds.
I am a Vagabond, and was never one for swearing pompous oaths and prating about honor.
An impudent vagabond was brought up before this clergyman charged with a violent and unprovoked assault on a man in a public-house.
Can we be attacked with impunity, then the company is as dead as if we have all had our weazands slit, and we are no better than vagabonds and beggars.
You-a worthless vagabond without a following-without even a burnoose to your back.
Now the reality of the case, with which Jones was not acquainted till afterwards, was this:- The lieutenant whom Lord Fellamar had employed, according to the advice of Lady Bellaston, to press Jones as a vagabond into the sea-service, when he came to report to his lordship the event which we have before seen, spoke very favourably of the behaviour of Mr.
The Picaresque novel in Spain and its counterparts, Till Eulenspiegel or Reinecke Vos in the north, told the adventures of some rascal or vagabond.
Other father, downtown, is welcomed off the street of leather outlets and white teenage vagabonds into the odd brick fortress of a building by the soundboard man, apologetic, telling him the others are late, no sweat though, come in.