Truant

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 478

troo'ant, a. Wandering from busine ; ering; idle, and shirking duty; willfully absent one's proper place. — n. One who stays away busine or dutv; an idler; a shirk; esp., a pupil stays away from school without leave. — Tra'ancy, -an-sT, n. Act of playing, or state of being, truant.