Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WAN'DER-ING
WAN'DER-ING, n.
- Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course.
- Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as, a wandering from duty.
- A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged. – Locke.
- The roving of the mind in a dream.
- The roving of the mind in delirium.
- Uncertainty; want of being fixed. – Locke.
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