vagrates

Verb

vagrate (third-person singular simple present vagrates, present participle vagrating, simple past and past participle vagrated)

1. To wander randomly before settling in a new place to live.
   • There is scarcely any doubt, however, that a few do breed in the Carn districts, and that they vagrate out to surrounding hills.1895, John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Thomas E. Buckley, A Fauna of the Moray Basin - Volume 2, page 156
2. To wander freely with no destination.
   • Sometimes one can hear long epic songs, sung in the past perhaps by songsters, who at present are not allowed to vagrate freely.1967, Annals of the Náprstek Museum - Volumes 3-6, page 165
3. To vary.
   • Among these Kings occurs the renowned name of Ollamh Fodhla, as to the period of whose existence the fabulous historians have vagrated between 1300 and 600 years before Christ.1835, The Westminster Review - Volume 23, page 194