[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wandering \wan"dering\,
   a.  n. from wander, v.
   1913 webster

   wandering albatross zool., the great white albatross. see
      illust. of albatross.

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

   wandering jew bot., 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.

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

   wandering liver med., a morbid condition of the liver,
      similar to wandering kidney.

   wandering mouse zool., the whitefooted, or deer, mouse.
      see illust. of mouse.

   wandering spider zool., any one of a tribe of spiders
      that wander about in search of their prey.
      1913 webster
see also:
wander wandering albatross albatross wandering cell wandering jew tradescantia 
wandering kidney floating kidney movable kidney wandering liver wandering mouse 
mouse wandering spider 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wander \wan"der\, v. i. imp.  p. p. wandered; p. pr.  vb.
   n. wandering. oe. wandren, wandrien, as. wandrian; akin
   to g. wandern to wander; fr. as. windan to turn. see wind
   to turn.
   1913 webster
   1. to ramble here and there without any certain course or
      with no definite object in view; to range about; to
      stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
      1913 webster

            they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
                                                  --heb. xi. 37.
      1913 webster

            he wandereth abroad for bread.        --job xv. 23.
      1913 webster

   2. to go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go
      astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
      1913 webster

            when god caused me to wander from my father's house.
                                                  --gen. xx. 13.
      1913 webster

            o, let me not wander from thy commandments. --ps.
                                                  cxix. 10.
      1913 webster

   3. to be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
      to rave; as, the mind wanders.
      1913 webster

   syn: to roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err;
        swerve; deviate; depart.
        1913 webster
see also:
wandered wandering wind 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wandering
     adj 1: of groups of people tending to travel and change
            settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society";
            "the nomadic habits of the bedouins"; "believed the
            profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy
            future"; "wandering tribes" syn: mobile, nomadic,
             peregrine, roving
     2: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest
        paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a
        winding country road" syn: meanderinga, rambling, wanderinga,
         winding
     3: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life
        followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" syn:
         erratic, planetary
     n : travelling about without any clear destination; "she
         followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
         syn: roving, vagabondage
see also:
mobile nomadic peregrine roving meanderinga rambling 
wanderinga winding erratic planetary vagabondage 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

341 moby thesaurus words for "wandering":
   wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, abnormal,
   adrift, afebrile delirium, afloat, afoot and lighthearted, aimless,
   aimlessness, alternating, ambulant, amorphous, anomalistic,
   anomalous, babbling, bend, bereft of reason, bias, brainsick,
   brainstorm, branching off, broken, bumming, by the way, capricious,
   careening, casual, catchy, changeable, changeful, choppy,
   circuitous, circuitousness, circumforaneous, corner, crackbrained,
   cracked, crazed, crazy, crook, curve, daft, declination, delirious,
   deliriousness, delirium, deluded, demented, departing, departure,
   deprived of reason, deranged, desultoriness, desultory, detour,
   deviable, deviance, deviancy, deviant, deviating, deviation,
   deviative, deviatory, devious, deviousness, different, digression,
   digressive, digressiveness, disarticulated, disconnected,
   discontinuous, discursion, discursive, discursiveness, disjunct,
   disordered, disoriented, dispersed, disproportionate, distracted,
   distrait, distraught, divagation, divagatory, divarication,
   divergence, divergent, diversion, dizzy, dogleg, double, drift,
   drifting, eccentric, episodic, errant, errantry, erratic,
   excursion, excursive, excursus, exorbitation, fast and loose,
   fickle, fitful, flickering, flighty, flitting, floating,
   fluctuating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, formless,
   frantic, freakish, frivolous, fugitive, gadding, giddy, gratuitous,
   guttering, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hairpin, hallucinated, halting,
   haphazard, herky-jerky, heteroclite, heteromorphic, hit-or-miss,
   hoboism, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, inchoate, incoherence,
   incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indirect,
   indirection, indiscriminate, infirm, insane, intermittent,
   intermitting, irrational, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible,
   itineracy, itinerancy, jerky, labyrinthine, landloping,
   lightheaded, lingual delirium, loco, loose, lunatic, lurching, mad,
   maddened, manic, maundering, mazed, mazy, meandering, meaningless,
   mental, mentally deficient, mercurial, meshuggah, migrational,
   migratory, misshapen, moody, moon-struck, nomad, nomadic, nomadism,
   non compos, non compos mentis, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic,
   nonuniform, not all there, not right, obliquity, odd,
   of unsound mind, off, orderless, out-of-the-way, patchy,
   perambulatory, peregrination, pererration, planetary, planless,
   promiscuous, psycho, queer, ramble, rambling, random, ranging,
   ranting, raving, reasonless, restless, roam, roaming, rough, rove,
   roving, scatterbrained, scrappy, senseless, serpentine, shapeless,
   sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shifty,
   shuffling, sick, skew, slant, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic,
   spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering,
   stark-mad, stark-staring mad, straggling, straggly, strange, stray,
   straying, strolling, subnormal, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging,
   systemless, tack, tetched, touched, traipsing, transient,
   transitory, transmigratory, turn, turning, twist, twisting,
   unaccountable, unarranged, unbalanced, uncertain, unclassified,
   uncontrolled, undependable, undirected, undisciplined, unequal,
   uneven, unfixed, ungraded, unhinged, unjoined, unmethodical,
   unmetrical, unnatural, unordered, unorganized, unpredictable,
   unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsane,
   unsettled, unsorted, unsound, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid,
   unsteadfast, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform,
   vacillating, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism,
   vagrancy, vagrant, vague, variable, variation, veer, veering,
   vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wanderlust, wanton,
   warp, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayfaring, wayward, whimsical, wild,
   winding, wishy-washy, witless, wobbling, wobbly, yaw, zigzag

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

wandering
   of the israelites in the wilderness in consequence of their
   rebellious fears to enter the promised land num. 14:26-35.
   they wandered for forty years before they were permitted to
   cross the jordan josh. 4:19; 5:6.
   
     the record of these wanderings is given in num. 33:1-49. many
   of the stations at which they camped cannot now be identified.
   
     questions of an intricate nature have been discussed regarding
   the "wanderings," but it is enough for us to take the sacred
   narrative as it stands, and rest assured that "he led them forth
   by the right way" ps. 107:1-7, 33-35. see wilderness.
   
see also:
wilderness 

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