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VAGABOND

Volume 18 · 52 words · 1797 Edition

or Vagrant, one who wanders illegally, without a settled habitation. Such persons are cognizable by the laws. See Idleness.

Vagina, properly signifies a sheath or scabbard; and the term vagina is used in architecture for the part of a terminus, because resembling a sheath out of which the statue seems to issue.