ppl. a. [f. VAGABOND v.]
1. That roams or wanders as, or in the manner of, a vagabond. Also transf. and fig.
a. 1586. Sidney, Songs in Astr. & Stella, V. xii. (Grosart), I. 86. I now then staine thy white with vagabonding shame.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. xiii. 610. Even vagabonding roagues … have their magnificences and voluptuousnesse.
1614. Drumm. of Hawth., Wks. (1913), I. 13. I … On euery part my vagabounding Sight Did cast.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., III. 111. A vagabonding Guest, Transported here and there. Ibid., 118. Concerning vagabonding Greekes, and their counterfeit Testimonials.
1881. Blackw. Mag., May, 571. The sword … went fairly straight along its vagabonding road.
2. Characterized by roaming or wandering; vagabondish.
Not clearly distinct from the vbl. sb. used attrib.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 472. These iewels certainely with their disguising sleights, they haue pilfred in their vagabounding race.
1824. New Monthly Mag., X. 283. Some would spend our prime’s best age In vagabonding pilgrimage.
1904. A. B. Paterson, Poems, 92. And through our blood there runs The vagabonding love of change.
