saunter, santer

i. [Etym. doubtful. Wedgwood derives it from Icel. slentr =idle, lounging, slen sloth; Dan. slentre to saunter; Sw. slentra; cf. Icel. seint =slowly; Dan. seent; Norw. seint; Sw. sent.] 1. to wander about idly and leisurely; to ramble about lazily; to walk leisurely along; to loiter, to linger. 2. To occupy one's self idly; to loiter, to dillydally. "Though putting the mind upon an unusual stre that may discourage ought to be avoided, yet this must not run it into a lazy sauntering about ordinary things."Locke. 3. To move or pa slowly; to drag along. "Clear as its current, glide the sauntering hours." Buron: Childe Harold. iv. 33. sâun-ter, subst . [SAUNTER, v . ] A sauntering or rambling leisurely about; a place for sauntering. "Loitering and leaping With saunter, with bound." Matthew Arnold: Bacchanalia, i. sauropsida pletely o ified; termination of vertebral column homocercal; fins generally with fulcra. Maxillary of a single piece, jaws with a single row of conical pointed teeth. Genera numerous, from Mesozoic formations.