a. [illiterate alteration of VAGRANT a.: cf. INGRAM a. In mod. use only after Shakespeare.]

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  1.  Vagrant, vagabond, wandering.

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1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, III. iii. 26. Dogberry. You shall comprehend all vagrom men.

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1863.  G. A. Sala, Capt. Dangerous, I. x. 285. Sheep-stealers, footpads, vagrom men and women.

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1874.  M. Collins, Transmigr., II. ii. 49. With him came the vagrom guest,… a boy almost.

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1882.  Besant, All Sorts, 164. Born of a poor vagrom woman.

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  2.  Eccentric, erratic.

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1882.  Sat. Rev., LIV. 497. Words lose their character and have their history obscured by being spelled after the vagrom devices of the phonetic people.

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