The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wayfaring \Way"far`ing\, a.
Traveling; passing; being on a journey. ``A wayfaring man.''
--Judg. xix. 17.
Wayfaring tree (Bot.), a European shrub ( Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.
American wayfaring tree (Bot.), the ( Viburnum lantanoides).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 travelling, especially on foot. 2 peripatetic. n. travel, especially on foot. v
(present participle of wayfare English)
WordNet
adj. traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger" [syn: peripatetic]
Usage examples of "wayfaring".
Seregil proved as fine a wayfaring companion as Alec could have hoped for, happy to fill the long hours of riding with tales, songs, and legends.
Mr Mutchkins and his pious family, was no longer held up to the imitation of the wayfaring man.
Last noon the Austrian ambassador, Whom I consulted ere I posted down, Assured me that his latest papers word How General Mack and eighty thousand men Have made good speed across Bavaria To wait the French and give them check at Ulm, That fortress-frontier-town, entrenched and walled, A place long chosen as a vantage-point Whereon to encounter them as they outwind From the blind shades and baffling green defiles Of the Black Forest, worn with wayfaring.
Meanwhile several wayfaring men were met, but in order to avoid our dust, they took the right or unbranded side of our herd on meeting, and passed on their way without inquiry.
Even as we were debating between ourselves, with an ardor that made us oblivious of our long wayfaring, what costly loot we would first choose from among all the mythical treasures of Commoriom, we saw in the moonlight the gleam of marble cupolas above the tree-tops, and then between the boughs and boles the wan pillars of shadowy porticoes.