the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A state of wandering without a settled home: not necessarily in a bad sense.
n. The life and condition of a vagrant; in law, the name given to a very miscellaneous class of offenses against public police and order. See vagrant.
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n. the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood
Word Usage
"He then continues: "This experience reiterated the lesson that the vast majority of these wanderers are of the class with whom a life of vagrancy is a chosen means of living without work.""