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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vagrant \Va"grant\, a. [Probably fr. OF. waucrant, wacrant, p. p. of waucrer, wacrer, walcrer, to wander (probably of Teutonic origin), but influenced by F. vagant, p. pr. of vaguer to stray, L. vagari. Cf. Vagary.]
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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. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
Vagrant \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "person who lacks regular employment, one without fixed abode, a tramp," probably from Anglo-French vageraunt, also wacrant, walcrant, which is said in many sources to be a noun use of the past participle of Old French walcrer "to wander," from Frankish (Germanic) *walken, from the same source as Old Norse valka "wander" and English walk (v.).\n
\nUnder this theory the word was influenced by Old French vagant, vagaunt "wandering," from Latin vagantem (nominative vagans), past participle of vagari "to wander, stroll about" (see vagary). But on another theory the Anglo-French word ultimately is from Old French vagant, with an intrusive -r-. Middle English also had vagaunt "wandering, without fixed abode" (late 14c.), from Old French vagant.
early 15c., from Anglo-French vagarant, waucrant, and sharing with it the history to be found under vagrant (n.). Dogberry's corruption vagrom ("Much Ado about Nothing") persisted through 19c. in learned jocularity.
Wiktionary
1 Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. 2 Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation. n. 1 A person without a home or jo
2 A wanderer. 3 (context ornithology English) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
WordNet
adj. 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, vagabond]
n. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: drifter, floater, vagabond]
Wikipedia
Vagrant, (1873 – c.1890) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for his 1876 Kentucky Derby win. Vagrant was the first of nine geldings to win the Kentucky Derby and was a white-stockinged bay colt sired by Virgil out of the mare Lazy (by Scythian (GB)). Virgil was notable for breeding successful nineteenth century race horses and stood at Milton H. Sanford's Elmendorf Stud in Kentucky. Vagrant is related, through his sire, to two other early Kentucky Derby winners, Hindoo (1881) and Ben Ali (1886).
Vagrant or vagrancy may refer to:
Vagrant is the debut mixtape by Most Dope member Bill. It was released as a free digital download on April 17, 2014. It features Mac Miller, Ab-Soul, and Vinny Radio, among others.
Vagrant is computer software that creates and configures virtual development environments. It can be seen as a higher-level wrapper around virtualization software such as VirtualBox, VMware, KVM and Linux Containers (LXC), and around configuration management software such as Ansible, Chef, Salt, and Puppet.
Vagrant was originally tied to VirtualBox, but version 1.1 added support for other virtualization software such as VMware and KVM, and for server environments like Amazon EC2. Vagrant is written in Ruby, but can be used in projects written in other programming languages such as PHP, Python, Java, C# and JavaScript.
Since version 1.6, Vagrant natively supports Docker containers, which in some cases can serve as a substitute for a fully virtualized operating system.
Vagrant plugins also exist, including vagrant-libvirt that adds support for libvirt, vagrant-lxc that adds support for lxc, and vagrant-vsphere that adds support for VMware's ESXi.
Usage examples of "vagrant".
My vagrant fancy shewed me her naked form, all seemed ravishing, and yet I thought that though she might inspire a passing fancy she could not arouse a durable affection.
There, under two green umbrellas, like two fat rajahs in their shaking howdahs upon the backs of two white elephants, the friends would sit in solemn equanimity awaiting the evasive cunner, the vagrant perch or cod or the occasional flirtatious eel.
His sweetheart did not follow his example, and so placed herself on the pretext of defending my victim that she increased my enjoyment, while my vagrant hand did not seem to displease her.
He took time to blow upon that slowmatch, but then, as he harbored scant faith in the ability of the ancient, ill-balanced and woefully inaccurate firelock to accomplish anything more of value than a loud noise to alert the camp, he reined up long enough to check by a vagrant beam of moonlight that the priming had not shaken from out the pan of his new wheel-lock pistol.
But a gamekeeper took me for a vagrant and threatened to set his dogs on me.
But how often was the exile, the vagrant, the Imperial beggar, humbled with scorn, insulted with pity, and degraded in his own eyes and those of the nations!
The rich and varied animal life of the cold plains constantly renewed itself, and the old bones scattered across the landscape were often swept away by vagrant streams into jumbled piles.
The Mater Mundi had driven Diana deep underground, leaving her rootless and alone as any vagrant.
Spirit of Spirits, leads back the vagrant spirit to its home, and accompanies it through the purifying processes, both real and symbolical, of its earthly transit.
She managed to clamp down and drink some more, recalling that she was just another vagrant summerling now, no longer the daughter of a rich, uptown clan with its own artesian well.
European vagrant, nearly always from Eastern Europe, who haunts the lowest type of Paris lodging-house, sometimes sleeps in railway stations, seldom ventures into the provinces, and then travels third-class or ticketless on the steps of trains or in goods trucks.
She strode to the larboard rail and marched up and down the deck, staring sternly at the small white houses on the far bank of the estuary and the little brownsailed tuggers that were slipping slowly out to sea before the vagrant morning airs.
We turn the street corner into a brick-walled alley crowded by wheelie bins and smelling of vagrant piss.
The acquiescence of the provincials encouraged their governors to acquire, or perhaps to usurp, a discretionary power of employing the rack, to extort from vagrants or plebeian criminals the confession of their guilt, till they insensibly proceeded to confound the distinction of rank, and to disregard the privileges of Roman citizens.
Lo Manto joined the Naples police force one week past his twenty-first birthday and was initially assigned to a street patrol unit designed to keep the main tourist areas free of vagrants, hookers, and pickpockets.