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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