Crossword clues for vagrancy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vagrancy \Va"gran*cy\, n. The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Threatened away into banishment and vagrancy.
--Barrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"life of idle begging," 1706, from vagrant + -cy. Earlier in a figurative sense, "mental wandering" (1640s). By late 18c. used in law as a catch-all for miscellaneous petty offenses against public order.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being a vagrant
WordNet
n. the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood
Wikipedia
Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby individual animals appear well outside their normal range; individual animals which exhibit vagrancy are known as vagrants. The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of factors which might cause an individual to become a vagrant — genetic factors and weather conditions are two — but the causes are overall poorly understood. Vagrancy can be a precursor to colonisation if individuals survive.
Vagrancy is known to occur in birds, insects, mammals and turtles.
A vagrant or a vagabond is a person, often in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income. Other synonyms include " tramp," " hobo," and "drifter". A vagrant could be described as being "a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging"; vagrancy is the condition of such persons.
Both "vagrant" and "vagabond" ultimately derive from Latin word vagari "wander." The term "vagabond" is derived from Latin vagabundus. In Middle English, "vagabond" originally denoted a criminal.
Vagrancy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare.
Usage examples of "vagrancy".
This assembly represented the necessity of ameliorating the existing laws regarding vagrancy, the relation between master and servant, the state of the militia, and the electoral qualification.
Her truancies and vagrancies concerned them not: she was a law to herself, like the birds and squirrels.
In England, Marx explains, proletarianization was accomplished first by the enclosures of the common lands and the clearing of peasants from the estates, and then by the brutal punishment of vagabondage and vagrancy.
In December to that point it tallied two muggings, a stolen vehicle, four vehicle break-ins, a handful of stolen purses, some suspected pickpocket activity, a variety of disturbances by the obnoxious or irate, two episodes of vandalism, a hit-and-run in the parking lot, vagrancy, panhandling, et cetera, et cetera, and a two-part list six pages long of suspected or confirmed shoplifting and stolen or missing merchandise.
Denio, Nevada, where I was arrested for vagrancy and through a series of miscommunications and bad luck, ended up serving thirty days of county jail time.
She granted him one waltz, and he talked of her father and his whimsical vagrancies and feeling he had a positive liking for Van Diemen, and he sagaciously said so.
Plains tribes were scattered as much through vagrancy and underemployment as through anything the draconians were doing at the time, and the fact is that they were confined to a life of wandering and forage merely because so many of the more promising young people among them were hastened off to dance attendance on the various Chieftains and Chieftain's daughters.
When he got to the training camp at Huntsville, he found the Reception Center closed for the day and only the thought of the consequences to his employment record, if he should be picked up for vagrancy, drove him to a hotel.