Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ROAM, v.i. [If m is radical, this word seems to be connected with ramble, L. ramus. In W. rhamu is to rise over, to soar, to vault; whence rhamant, a rising boldly, romance; rhem, rhum, something projecting; rhim, rim, the exterior part of a thing; Ar. رَامَ, to exceed, to depart. Class Rm, No. 5. See also No. 9, and 23.]

To wander; to ramble; to rove; to walk or move about from place to place without any certain purpose or direction. The wolf and the savage roam in the forest. Daphne roaming through a thorny wood. – Shak.