Word Meanings - WANDERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.

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• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• ROAM
  To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander. He roameth to the carpenter's house. Chaucer. Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. Shak. Syn. -- To wander; rove; range; stroll; ramble. (more info) aim, OS.
• WANDERER
  One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
• WANDERING
  a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross , the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell , an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering
• WANDER
  1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for
• ROAMER
  One who roams; a wanderer.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• MICROAMPERE
  One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampère.
• MISWANDER
  To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. Chaucer.
• ACROAMATIC; ACROAMATICAL
  Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.
• STROAM
  1. To wander about idly and vacantly. 2. To take long strides in walking.