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Wander v. t. To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. (R.) "(Elijah) wandered this barren waste."

Wander v. i. (past & past part. wandered; pres. part. wandering)

To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. "They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins." "He wandereth abroad for bread."

To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject. "When God caused me to wander from my father's house." "O, let me not wander from thy commandments."

To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

Synonyms: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wander" Quotes from Famous Books

... margin in every organic structure (and perhaps more than we imagine in things inorganic also), which will admit of references, as it were, side notes, and glosses upon the original text. It is on this margin that we may err or wander—the greatness of a mistake depending rather upon the extent of the departure from the original text, than on the direction that the departure takes. A little error on the bad side is more pardonable, and less ...

— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler

... sixty other girls Sue worked at the sewing-machine from morning till night. It was hard labor, as she had to work with her feet as well as her hands, producing slop clothing at the rate of a yard a minute. Never for an instant might her eyes wander from the seam; and all this severe work was done in the midst of an ear-splitting clatter, which alone would have worn out a person not thoroughly accustomed ...

— Sue, A Little Heroine • L. T. Meade

... him ran a poetic vein, capable of being worked in any direction, and from which he could, at will, extract that which his imagination saw and felt most. That he occasionally left the child-world, in which he longed to linger, to wander among the older children of men, where intuitively the hungry listener follows him into his Temple of Mirth, all should rejoice, for those who knew him not, can while away the moments imbibing the genius of his imagination in the poetry ...

— John Smith, U.S.A. • Eugene Field

... his side rode one, whose restless eyes seemed to wander to each individual of the crowd in turn, while power and malice seemed equally conspicuous in his glance. Little changed since we last beheld him rode the traitor, for so all but the king ...

— Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake

... Fairclough. This training took all morning, and as far as I could judge the men were interested in the course and did their best to learn the intricacies of this new weapon. In the afternoon I was free to wander round and examine the surrounding country. It was of considerable interest, for it was part of the ground evacuated by the enemy when he retreated to the Hindenburg Line. The trenches were magnificently built, and revetted with wood or ...

— Q.6.a and Other places - Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 • Francis Buckley

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