Now rare. Also Sc. 6 vaiging, 7 -in, vaging. [f. as prec.] The action of the vb.; idle rambling or wandering; an instance or occasion of this. Chiefly Sc.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 258. His wyfe … culde nocht suffir his foull, inordinat, and voluptuous vaiging by her.
1659. A. Hay, Diary (S.H.S.), 38. That the Lord wold reforme … the vaigings and whorings of my heart.
1692. in Bower, Hist. Univ. Edinb., I. 54. That thereby vaging and vice may be discouraged.
1770. J. Watt, in Muirhead, Life (1858), 203. The vaguing about the country, and bodily fatigue, have given me health and spirits.
1900. H. G. Graham, Soc. Life Scot. in 18th C. (1901), III. ii. 92. The vaguing or loitering idly in the streets … was a subject of condemnation.
