Meaning of vagrate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To wander randomly before settling in a new place to live.
2. To wander freely with no destination.
3. To vary.

Examples

“There is scarcely any doubt⟳, however, that a few do breed⟳ in the Carn districts, and that they vagrate out to surrounding hills.”

“A moth that is possessed by the instinct to migrate⟳ (which is the wrong word; moths do not "migrate⟳" as the zoologist knows migration; they "vagrate"), soars almost as soon as its wings are dry; the very first flight that it makes is the flight that carries it across the sea.”

“The neonate larvae appear⟳ from mid-June to early July and vagrate to the leaves, where they settle⟳, preferably on the lower side.”

“Most western vagrants involve⟳ species that frequently vagrate to the East; the only exceptions are all from the Southwest: Broad-billed Hummingbird, Tropical/ Couch's Kingbird, and Cassin's Sparrow (DeSante & Pyle, 1986).”

“Sometimes one can hear⟳ long epic songs, sung in the past perhaps by songsters, who at present⟳ are not allowed to vagrate freely.”

“As far as you have⟳ observed the free people of colour, have⟳ they been disposed to vagrate, except for the purpose of procuring more profitable employment?”

“Breathing is the bridge between the body and mind⟳; it anchors the mind⟳; it doesn't allow⟳ it to vagrate or to wander⟳.”

“Among these Kings occurs the renowned name⟳ of Ollamh Fodhla, as to the period of whose existence the fabulous historians have⟳ vagrated between 1300 and 600 years before Christ.”

“The large spread⟳ of these potentials, however, seems to indicate⟳ that potentials in the dilute solutions of this series somehow vagrate within a fairly wide range.”

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