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Vagrant was first started as a personal side-project by Mitchell Hashimoto in January 2010. The first version of Vagrant was released in March 2010. In October 2010, Engine Yard declared that they were going to sponsor the Vagrant project. The first stable version, Vagrant 1.0, was released in March 2012, exactly two years after the original ...
In the context of lichens, a vagrant form or species occurs unattached to a substrate ("loose"), not necessarily outside its range. [ 9 ] Another definition (de Lange & Molloy, 1995) defined vagrant species in New Zealand flora – although could also be applied for any given region.
Both vagrant and vagabond ultimately derive from the Latin word vagari, meaning "to wander". The term vagabond and its archaic equivalent vagabone come from Latin vagabundus ("strolling about"). In Middle English, vagabond originally denoted a person without a home or employment. [2]
Eronia cleodora, a species commonly known as the vine-leaf vagrant; Eronia leda, a species commonly known as the autumn leaf vagrant; Nepheronia, another genus of Pieridae commonly known as (plain) vagrants Nepheronia argia, an African species known as the large vagrant; Nepheronia thalassina, a species known as the Cambridge vagrant
Along with the vagrant swordsman Mugen, he accompanies a young girl named Fuu on a quest to find the "samurai who smells of sunflowers". In the 2023 anime series Revenger , the protagonist becomes a rōnin after a meeting with a shadowy organization following an assassination attempt.
A deranged vagrant who allegedly slashed a worker at a Brooklyn dollar store and then tried to light his victim on fire was cut loose without bail — after just three days at Rikers Island.
Tramp is derived from a Middle English verb meaning to "walk with heavy footsteps" (cf. modern English trample) and "to go hiking". In Britain, the term was widely used to refer to vagrants in the early Victorian period. The social reporter Henry Mayhew refers to it in his writings of the 1840s and 1850s. By 1850, the word was well established.
Can also mean a small basin or other container. [1] bergie (Informal) refers to a particular subculture of vagrants in Cape Town (from Afrikaans berg (mountain), originally referring to vagrants who sheltered in the forests of Table Mountain). Increasingly used in other cities to mean a vagrant of any description. [2]