Definition for WAN'DER-ING

WAN'DER-ING, n.

  1. Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course.
  2. Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as, a wandering from duty.
  3. A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged. – Locke.
  4. The roving of the mind in a dream.
  5. The roving of the mind in delirium.
  6. Uncertainty; want of being fixed. – Locke.

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