Of the mind, thoughts, desires, etc. (usually personified, and conceived as moving without the direction of reason or will towards, or about, the…

transitive and intransitive. To run across or over; to run or rove to and fro.

intransitive. Esp. of the mind, thoughts, etc.: to rove, stray, wander; to deviate from a correct course; (of a person) to stray in thought or…

intransitive. figurative. Of the mind, thoughts, etc.: to move from one thing to another; to cover or range over many subjects unsystematically…

intransitive. To wander freely in speech or writing; (now more usually) to write or talk in an aimless, incoherent, or inconsequential fashion…

Gerundially in to go,or to be, a-wandering. Now rare or archaic.

intransitive. Of thoughts, the imagination, etc.: to wander or rove freely.