wandering

Roving; roam ing; pursuing no fixed course, plan, or object; unsettled: as, a wandering spirit; wandering habits; a wandering minstrel.

A plant-name: The beefsteak- or strawberry-geranium, Saxifraga sarmentosa; locally, the Kenilworth ivy, Linaria Cymbalaria. One of two or three house-plants, as Zebrina pendula (Trades-cantia zebrina), which are planted in baskets or vessels of water, whence they spread in a straggling fashion. Z. pendula has lance-ovate or oblong leaves which are crim son beneath and green or purplish above, with two broad silvery stripes. Another sort has bright green leaves.

The act of one who wanders; a ramble or peregrination; a journeying hither and thither.

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.

Incoherence of speech; raving; delirium.

a. & n. from wander, v.

the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross.

an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood.

any one of several creeping species of Tradescantia, which have alternate, pointed leaves, and a soft, herbaceous stem which roots freely at the joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets, window boxes, etc.

a morbid condition in which one kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain directions; — called also floating kidney, movable kidney.