Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
a vagrant beggar
From Late Middle English vagraunt (“person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”) [and other forms], probably from Anglo-Norman vagarant, wakerant, waucrant (“vagra...
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Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.
Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.