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VAGUE, a. vag. [L. vagus, wandering.]
Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
[Archaic]
"To set upon the vague villains." Hayward.
She danced along with vague, regardless eyes. Keats. Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite;
ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. I. Taylor. The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. Hawthorne. Proceeding from no known authority;
unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
Some legend strange and vague. Longfellow. Vague year. See Sothiac year, under Sothiac. Syn. -- Unsettled; indefinite; unfixed; ill-defined; ambiguous; hazy; loose; lax; uncertain. An
indefinite expanse.
[R.]
The gray vague of unsympathizing sea. Lowell. To wander; to roam; to
stray.
[Obs.] "[The soul] doth vague and wander."
Holland. A wandering; a vagary.
[Obs.] Holinshed. | ||||||||