wandering

Etymology

wander + -ing

adj

1. Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
   This was the time when Venerable Master Hsing Yun first arrived in Taiwan as a wandering monk and was refused lodgings. He was nearly reduced to begging on the street. Fortunately, the old Venerable Miaoguo of Yuanguang Temple in Chungli took him in. 2013, Xuan Pan, Hsing Yun, “When You Stop By the Four Permanent Exhibits”, in Robert Smitheram, transl., Buddha Land in the Human World: The Making of the Buddha Memorial Center, 1st English edition, Buddha's Light Publishing, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64
2. (medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
   a wandering kidney; a wandering liver

noun

1. Travelling without preset route; roaming.
2. Irregular turning of the eyes.
3. Aimless thought.
4. Straying from a desired path.
5. (chiefly in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of wander