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To wander about; to drift around aimle ly. Ku-klux Klan. A name given to the southern moonlight clubs, organized during the reconstruction period for the purpose of intimidating negroes and Republicans generally into political subjection to the Democrats. No doubt the partisan accounts of their actions have been greatly overdrawn, although there is no dispute that in many instances they were responsible for most atrocious crimes. L.