The Only Use of
vagrant
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.†
p. 36.3vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
Definitions:
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(1)
(vagrant) someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, and especially long ago, you may see vagrant used to emphasize that a poor person wanders from place to place. Even more rarely, it can describe an animal as being in a place it usually is not, or to describe anything that varies or seems random such as the seeming haphazard direction in which a certain weed spreads, or the fleeting quality of something smelled for only an instant.