truant

i. & t. [TRUANT, a.] A. Intransitive: 1. To idle away time; to loiter or be absent from employment. "'Tis double wrong to truant with your bed, And let her read it in thy looks at board." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iii. 2. 2. To play the truant. "On the subject of corporal punishment for truanting and the subsequent prosecution of parents."- London Daily Telegraph . B. Trans.: To waste or idle away. "I dare not be the author of truanting the time." Ford. trû-ant-lý, adv. & a. [Eng. truant; -ly.] A. As adv.: In a truant manner, like a truant. B. As adj.: Truant. "Trifling like untaught boys at their books, with a truantly spirit."- Bp . Taylor: Sermons , vol. ii., ser. 5.