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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Wanderer, Wandirer, n. [Late ME and e.m.E. wanderare (Prompt. Parv.), wandrer (1540), wanderer (1605).] A wanderer, one who passes casually along a route, one who wanders aimlessly around. Also in fig. content. — 1596 Dalr. I 210/6.
To festne and to rute it [sc. pure religion] into the hartes of wandireris by the way 1692 Presb. Eloq. (1693) 24.
The poor … wanderers have look'd as meat-like and cloath-like as others that sat at ease in their houses 1740 Letter by Mr. John Dickson from the Bass Prison (1717) 13.
I see the wanderers lying in the moss-haggs … with their hearts rumbling out at their eyes in bitter weeping