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▪ I. ˈvaguing, vbl. n. Now rare.
Also Sc. 6 vaiging, 7 -in, vaging.
[f. as prec.]
The action of the vb.; idle rambling or wandering; an instance or occasion of this. Chiefly Sc.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 258 His wyfe..culde nocht suffir his foull, inordinat, and voluptuous vaiging by her. 1659A. Hay Diary (S.H.S.) 38 That the Lord wold reforme..the vaigings and whorings of my heart. 1692in Bower Hist. Univ. Edinb. I. 54 That thereby vaging and vice may be discouraged. 1770J. Watt in Muirhead Life (1858) 203 The vaguing about the country, and bodily fatigue, have given me health and spirits. 1900H. G. Graham Soc. Life in Scot. 18th Cent. (1901) III. ii. 92 The vaguing or loitering idly in the streets..was a subject of condemnation.
▪ II. ˈvaguing, ppl. a.
Also 7 vaging.
[f. as prec.]
Wandering, roving.
1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 223 Men of no setled abode; vaguing, or vagabond Iewes. 1629Sir W. Mure True Crucifix 2715 Sathan,..who course doth take On wings of vaging thoughts, before to send His Messingers. 1633Struther True Happiness 135 Hee saw nothing beside, that could so much as draw his vaging desire to it. 1905Gunn Baron Crt. of Stitchill (S.H.S.) Introd. p. xxii, The sturdy, vaguing beggar who would neither work nor want was a constant menace to the cottar and villager. |