wander, wandren, wandrien

i. & t. [A. S. wandrian, a frequent. from wend an to go, to wend (q.v.); Dut. wandelen =to walk; Ger. wan deln to wander, to travel, to walk; Dan. vandre; Sw.vandra; O. Dut. wanderen. ] IMG:content-0643.png:[graphic] A. Intransitive : 1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or object in view; to travel or move from place to place without any fixed purpose or desti nation; to rove, range, or roam about; to stroll, to stray. "They wandered in the wilderne in a solitary way." Psalm cvii. 4. 2. To leave one's home or settled place of abode; to migrate. "When God caused me to wander from my father's house."- Genesis xx. 13. 3. To depart or stray from any settled course or path; to go astray, as from the paths of duty; to stray, to err, to deviate. "O let me not wander from thy commandments." Psalm cxix. 10. 4. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; as, The mind wanders . 5. To digre from the subject in hand. *B. Trans .: To wander over; to travel, roam, or stroll over or through, without any fixed course, object, or destination. "Forty days Elijah without food, Milton: P. R., i. 354. Wander'd this barren waste." wan-der-er, *wan-dre-er, s. [Eng. wander; 1. One who wanders; one who travels about, having no fixed home or place of abode. -er.] "The youth, obedient to his sire's commands, Sets off a wanderer into foreign lands." Cowper : Progre of Error, 378. 2. One who wanders or strays from the path of duty. IMG:content-0644.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia C. As substantive : 1. A roaming or traveling about without a fixed course, object, or destination. "Through ten years' wandering, and through ten years' war."-Pope: Homer's Ody ey, xiii. 343. 2. Aberration; deviation from rectitude; a straying or swerving from the path of duty. "If any man's eagerne of glory has made him over see the way to it, let him now recover his wanderings ."Decay of Piety. 3. A roving or straying of the mind or thoughts; mental aberration. "Suited to my present wanderings of thought."-Budg. ell: Spectator, No. 425. 4. Indulgence in digre ions or disquisitions foreign to the subject in hand. The Wandering Jew: A legendary character, condemned to wander from place to place till the Day of Judgment. According to one version, that of Matthew Paris ( Chron . St. Alban's Abbey ), he was Car to phil us, the doorkeeper of the Judgment Hall, in the service of Pontius Pilate, and struck our Lord as he led Him forth, saying, "Get on faster, Jesus!" whereupon our Lord replied, "I am going, but thou shalt tarry till I come again." Another legend is that Jesus, pre ed down with the weight of His cro , stopped to rest at the door of one Ahasuerus, a cobbler. The craftsman pushed Him away, saying, "Get off! Away with you, away!" Our Lord replied, "Truly I go away, and that quickly, but tarry thou till I come." A third legend says that it was the cobbler who hauled Jesus before the judgment seat of Pilate, saying to him, "Faster, Jesus, faster!" The legend has formed the basis of many poems and novels. wandering-albatro , s. Ornith.: Diomedea exulans . [ALBATROSS.] wan-der-ing-lỹ, *wan-dring-ly, adv . [Eng. wandering; -ly .] In a wandering, roving, or unsettled manner. IMG:content-0646.png:[blocks in formation] oos have long, slim bodies, covered with deep-black hair, tail of the same color, tufted. The head looks very large, because of a mane, or ruff, and beard which sticks out round the face. This ma of long hair is either gray or white, and adds to the sly look of the broad face, soft dull eyes, and broad muzzle. The name is misleading, as Maca cus silenus is not a native of Ceylon. Mr. Blanford ( Proc . Zool. Wanderoo. ( Macacus silenus . ) Soc., 1887, p. 623) proposed to substitute for it the name Lion-tailed Monkey, used by Pennant. 2. Any species of the genus Semnopithecus (q.v.). S. ursinus is the Great Wanderoo [MAHA.] "The name wanderu has clung to the Malabar Monkey ever since [the publication of Buffon's Nat . Hist .]; but really applies, as Templet on, Kelaart, Tennent, and others have shown, to the Ceylonese Semnopitheci, and was rightly employed for those animals by Knox and Ray." Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 623. *wand'-ý, a. [Eng. wand ; -y.] Long and flexible, like a wand.