wander 
wandlon = D. wandeleH= OHG. wantalon, MHG. 
G. waiulern, waiideln = Sw. vandra = Dan. 
vandre, wander, travel, walk ; a freq. form, as- 
sociated with wend (AS. wendaii, etc.), < AS. 
icindan (pret. wand), wind, turn, twist: see 
windi, wend^.] 1. intrans. 1 . To ramble with- 
out, or as if without, any certain course or 
object in view ; travel or move from place to 
place; range about; roam; rove; stroll; stray. 
He vxtndereth abroad for bread. Job xv. 23. 
Wanderi7ig, each his several way 
Pursues, as inclinatiuii or sad choice 
Leads him perplexed. Milton, P. L., li. 523. 
2. To leave home or a settled place of abode ; 
depart; migrate. 
When God caused me to minder from my father's house. 
Gen. XI. 13. 
3. To depart from any settled course; go 
astray, as from the paths of duty ; stray ; de- 
viate; err. 
You wander from the good we aim at. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iiL 1. 138. 
4. To lose one's way; be lost. [Colloq.] — 5. 
To think or speak incoherently ; i-ave ; be de- 
lirious. 
LitiU he Bleppit, 
Bat xoandrit & woke for woo of his buernes. 
DettruetioH o/Troy(E. E. T. S.), 1. 10097. 
Tom BendilMW seemed to have something on his mind, 
but I think he wanders a little. He may speak more ex- 
plicitly to you. J. llawthorne, Dust, p. 222. 
=87n. 1-3. Roam, Rove, etc (see raiiMe), straggle.— 3, 
Swerve, digress. 
H. trans. 1. To travel over without a cer- 
tain course; stroll through; traverse. 
Wand'ring many a famous realm. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 234. 
2. To lead astray: cause to lose the way or 
become lost. [Colloq.] 
wandered (won'dtrd), p. a. That has strayed 
or become lost: as, the wandered scolex of the 
dog's tapeworm. 
wanderer (wou'd^r-*r), ». [< me. wanderare 
(= G. wanderer); < wander + -«i'l.] 1. One 
who or that which wanders; one who roams 
about, having no home or certain place of 
abode; also, one who strays from the path of 
duty. 
And here to every thirsty wanderer. 
By sly enticement gives his baneful cup. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 524. 
8. pi. In Arachnida, specifically, the wandering 
as distinguished from the sedentary spiders; 
the vagabonds. See Vagabiotdee. 
wandering Cwon'd6r-ing),/>. a. Koviug; roam- 
ing; pursuing no fixed course, j)lan, or object; 
unsettled : as, a wandering spirit ; wandering 
habits ; a wandering minstrel. 
Pray ye, do not trouble him ; 
You see he 's weak, and has a icanderinff fancy. 
Fletcher, .Spanish Curate, iv. 5. 
If a man's wits be wanderinp, let him study tlie mathe- 
matics for in demonstrations, if his wit ix: called away 
never so little, he must begin again. Bacon, Studies. 
Wandering abscess, a chronic atiscess which burrows 
through the ti.-s8ues, msually in obedience to the law of 
gravity, and appears on the surface at some distance from 
H« point of origin.— Wandering cells, the leucocytes; 
cells resembling, and probablyiaenticai with, the white 
blood-curpuscleis found in the tissues outside of the Idood- 
vessels. — Wandering Jew. (a) a legendary clinracter 
who, according to one version (that of Matthew Paris, 
dating from the thirteenth ct'iituryX was a servant of 
IMlate, by namo Cartaiihiius, and gave Christ a blow 
when he was led out of ttu" palace to execution. Ac- 
cording to a later version ho was a cobbler named Ahas- 
nerus, who refused Ctirist permisHion to sit down and 
rest when lie passed his bouse on the way to Golgotha. 
Both legends agree in the sentence pronounced by Chrwt 
on the offender, "Thou shalt wiinder on the earth till I 
retnru." A prey to remorse, he baa since wandered from 
land to land without being able to flntl a gi'ave. Ttie 
story has l>een turned to account by many poets and nov- 
elists. (6) A plant-name : (1) The beefsteak- or strawberry. 
geraninm, Saxifraaa xannetUfuta ; locally, the Kenilwortli 
Ivy, Linaria Cyinmlnria. [Great Britain.] (2) One of 
two or three hoUAe-plants, aa Zebritui jiendida (Trailer- 
eanlia zebrirux), which are planted in baskets or vessels of 
water, whence they spread in a straggling fashion. Z. 
pendida has lance-ovate or oblong leaves wldch are crim- 
son beneath and green or purplish alM,ve. with two broad 
silvery stripes. Another 8<irt has bright green leaves. — 
Wandering shearwater, the greater shearwater, Pu^- 
niM mnjtrr, a bir<l of the family Pyocdlariidx. See cut 
under haf/den. — Wandering spiders. See icamierer, 2. 
— Wandierlng tattler, Hfti'ro'^c-bu< iiwanns, a bird of 
the snipe fandly 'S''"ti>j)ariil/e). widely distributed on the 
coasts and islands of the Pacillc. See cut under tattler. 
— Wandering tumor, one of the solid ab<lonnnal viscera 
which has l>eeome movable through relaxation of its at- 
tachments, as a floating kidney. 
wandering (won'der-iiif;), «. [< ME. wandcr- 
ynge, wandringe (= MHG. tfaiitleringe, G. iran- 
derung), verbal n. of wander, r.] 1. The act of 
one who wanders; a ramble or peregrination; 
a journeying hither and thither. 
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And many a tree and bush my wanderings know. 
And e'en the clouds and silent stars of heaven. 
Jones Very, Poems, p. 85. 
2. A straying away, as from one's home or the 
right way ; a deviation or digression in any way 
or from any course : as, the wandering of the 
thoughts ; a wandering from duty. 
Let him now recover his wanderings. 
Decaif of Christian Piety. 
3. Incoherence of speech; raving; delirium. 
wanderingly (won'dcr-ing-li), adv. In a wan- 
dering or unsteady manner. 
When was Lancelot waiideringly lewd ? 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
wandering-sailor (wou'der-ing-sa"lor), ». The 
moneywort, Lysimacltia Xummulari'a, and the 
Kenilworth ivy or wandering Jew, Linaria Cym- 
balaria, from their creeping habit. 
wandermentt (won'der-ment), «. [< wander + 
-ment.'i The act of roaming or roving. [Eare.] 
Barefoot went 
L'pon their ten toes in wild wanderment. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, II. Hi. 20. 
wanderoo (won-de-ro'), n. [Also wanderow, 
wanderu; = F. ouanderou (BufEon), < Cingalese 
wanderu, a monkey; cf. Hind, bandar, a mon- 
key: see bunder.'\ Alarge catarrhine monkey 
of Malabar, India, Macacus silenus. It is about 3 
feet long to the tip of the tail (which is tufted), of a black- 
ish color with pink buttocks, and has an extravagant mane 
of long hair surrounding the face, of a light or whitish 
Wanderoo [Mnciicus siUnus). 
color. Notwithstanding the name, the wanderoo is not 
found in Ceylon, where that native name applies more 
properly to species of Snnnoyithecus, as the great wan- 
deroo or maha, S. ursinus. The misapplication origi- 
nated with Button. Also called Malabar monkey, lion- 
tailed monkey, babo&n, or macaque, neel-chunder, silenus, 
and by other names. 
wandle (won'dl), a. [Appar. for "wandly, < 
wand + -ly^. Ct. icandy.'] Wand-like; wandy; 
supple ; pliant ; nimble. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
wandoo (won'do), n. [Native Australian.] A 
eucalypt, Eucalyptus rediinca, the white-gum of 
western Australia. It is a large tree, the trunk some- 
times 17 feet in diameter, in one variety suddenly swelling 
out near the ground. It furnishes a very pale heavy, hard, 
tough, and durable wood, greatly prized for wheelwork, 
especially for fellies. 
wandretht (won'dreth), H. [< ME. wandreth, 
wandrcthc, wondrcthc, < Icel. vandrsedhi, diffi- 
culty, trouble, geuit. as adj., difficult, trouble- 
some, < landr, difficult, requiring pains and 
care, hence also select, choice, picked, also 
zealous, -I- rddli, advice, counsel, management, 
= E. read: see rcad^, n., and ef. -reth, -red, in 
hundrcth, hundred, kindred. Cf. quandary.'] Dif- 
ficulty; peril; distress. 
Bettur is a buerne by hym sum pes 
Than in wandreth & woo to wepe all his lyue. 
Destruction 0/ Troy (E. E. T. S.), I. 11514. 
wands (wondz), ». pi. [Prob. < Dan. rand, 
water, = Norw. rand, water, a lake, tarn: see 
wafer.] Roads; a roadstead. 
The 21 day the Primerose remaining at an anker in the 
vamls, the other three shippes bare into Orwel hauen. 
Ilaktuyt's Voyages, I. 310. 
wandsomdlyt, adr. [ME., for * wansomely, < 
wan + -Home + -h/-, or "wantsomely, < wantsome 
-I- -/i/2.] Sorrowfully. 
The waye unto Wynchestre thay wcnte at the gayneste, 
Wery and wandsomdly, with wondide knyghtes. 
'Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4013. 
wandy (won'di). rt. l<wand-\--y'^.] Long and 
flexiVile, like a wand. 
wane^ (wan), v.; pret. and pp. waned, ppr. wan- 
ing. [< ME. wanen, wanicn, wonien, < AS. 
wanian, wonian, gewauiun = OFries. wania, 
wang-tooth 
wonia = OHG. wanoii, wanen = Icel. vana, de- 
crease, wane; from the adj., AS. wan = OHG. 
wan = Icel. vanr = Goth, wans, wanting, de- 
ficient (an adj. also appearing as a negative 
prefix : see loan-), = Skt. una, lacking, deficient, 
inferior ; perhaps an orig. pp. of a root u, be 
empty, Zend -y/ «, be lacking, existing also in 
Gr. tiV(f, bereaved, G. iide, desolate, etc. Cf. 
jcrt»l, want^. Hence jn'ob. waniand, wanion.] 
1. intrans. 1. To decrease; be diminished: ap- 
plied particularly to the periodical lessening of 
the illuminated part of the moon : opposed to 
wax. 
Undernethe hir feet she hadde a mone, 
Wexing it was, and sholde wanie sone. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1220. 
How slow 
This old moon wanes! 
Shak., M. N. D., i. 1. 4. 
2. To decline; fail; sink; approach an end. 
Wealth and ease in waning age. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 142. 
Daylight waned, and night came on. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
Il.t trans. To cause to decrease; lessen. 
That he [Christ] takes the name of the son of a woman, 
and wanes the glorious name of the Son of God. 
Donne, Sermons, iii. 
wanel (wan), w. [< ME. wane, < AS. wana = 
Icel. vani, decrease, wane: see wane^, r.] 1. 
Periodic decrease of the illuminated part of the 
moon ; period of decreasing illumination. 
How many a time hath Phcebe from her wane 
With Phoebus' fires filled up her horns again. 
Drayton, On his Lady's not Coming to London. 
2. Decline; failure; declension. 
Men, families, cities, have their falls and wanes. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 04. 
3. A beveled edge of a board or plank as sawn 
from an unsquared log, the bevel being caused 
by curvature of the log. 
All the thick-stuff and plank to be cut straight, or 
nearly so, and of parallel thickness, and to be measureii 
for breadth at the middle, or half the length, taking in 
half the tcatiee. Laslett, Timber, p. 75. 
wane'-'t (wan), a. [ME., < AS. wok, deficient: 
see wan-, wati'^, and wane^, v.] Wanting; lack- 
ing; deficient. 
And qwo-so be wajie schal paye a pound of wax. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 30. 
wane''+, ". Same as wane. York Playts, p. 106. 
wane-cloud (wan'kloud), n. A cin'o-stratus 
cloud. 
Modern meteorologists have corroborated the specula- 
tive notions of the ancients, and have observed the prev- 
alence of the wane-clo^td to Ije usually followed I)y bad 
weather. Forster, .\tmospheric Phenomena. 
Waney (wa'ni), a. and n. [< wane'i- + -y"^.] I. 
a. Having a natural bevel (compare wane^, «., 
3) ; hence, making poor lumber from irregular- 
ities of the surface, as a log. 
II. «. The thin edge or feather-edge of slab 
cut from a round log without previous squaring. 
E. H. Knight. 
wangl (wang), n. [< ME. wange, tconge, < AS. 
wange, wonge, cheek, jaw (toang-beard, cheek- 
beard, wang-toth, wang-tooth, jaw-tooth, grind- 
er, thunwangc, temple: see thunwange), = OS. 
wanga = L(jr. vjang = OHG. wanga, MHG. G. 
wange, cheek, jaw (Goth. *waggo not recorded) ; 
by some supposed to have been orig. ' an extend- 
ed surface' (the expanse of the face), and thus 
connected with AS. wang, wong = Icel. vangr 
= Goth, wnggs, a plain, field, meadow, though 
most names for parts of the body have no such 
origin.] 1. The jaw, jaw-bone, or cheek-bone. 
[Obsolete or vulgar.] 
Thy wordis makis me my wangges to wete. 
And chauuges, childe, ful often my cheere. 
York Plays, p. 64. 
2t. [Short for wang-tooth.] A cheek-tootli or 
grinder. Chaucer. 
wang^t (wang), n. A dialectal reduction of 
wAawr/i. 
wangala (wa#g'ga-la), «. Same as vanglo. 
wangert, "• [Also wonger; < ME. wangere, 
wongcr, wongvre, < AS. wangere (= OHG. wan- 
gari = Goth, waggari), a pillow, < wange, 
j<io?(f/«, etc., cheek: aee wang'^.] A rest for the 
cheek; a pillow. 
His bryght helm was his wonger. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 201. 
Wang-tootht (wang'toth), «. [< ME. wang- 
tootfie, < AS. wangtotli, < wang, cheek, -I- tiith, 
tooth: see wang^ and tooth.] A cheek-tooth; 
a grinder or molar. 
He boffatede me a-boute the mouthe and bete oute my 
wang-teth. Piers Plou-ntan (CX xxiii. 191. 
