(a) To go walking, set out or proceed on foot; go for a stroll, ramble; gon ~ abouten, wenden wandringe; (b) to go freely (in or about a place), move at will; also in fig. context [quot. c1400(a1376)]; also, of the devil: be on the prowl (around sb.) [1st quot.]; yede wandringe; (c) to have the power to walk, be released from lameness or paralysis; (d) to tread (on sth.); (e) with diminished force: to go about one’s affairs, go around.

(a) To travel from place to place, be peripatetic; be without a home, live as a vagabond or traveler; ~ abouten; gon ~; ppl. wandringe as adj., of animals: migratory; of a medical condition: mobile, diffuse; also [2nd quot.], of a groaning: ?arising from pain that shifts from one part of the body to another; ?restless; (b) to be in transit, be on the way somewhere; comen wandringe in the wei; (c) to be unstable in one’s mode of living, be idle, gad about; ~ abouten.

(a) To set out walking under compulsion, go into exile, flee; wander as an exile, outcast, etc.; (b) fig. to endure spiritual exile, live in the world; ~ abouten; ~ in erthe (in this world, etc.); ppl. wandringe as adj.: spiritually homeless; ?spiritually lost; also, as noun: those who endure spiritual exile in earthly life [quot. c1225]; ppl. wandred ?as noun, in phrase: to werie wandred, to those who have endured spiritual exile in earthly life.

(a) To walk or move about aimlessly because lost, disoriented, wounded, etc., wander; also, fig. of persons or thoughts: be in a state of distraction, wander mentally; ~ abouten; ~ in minde; gon (wenden) wandringe; ppl. wandringe, wandering; of thoughts: confused, jumbled; of one’s personality or behavior: ?characterized by aimlessness, lack of direction, or indecision [quots. ?a1475 Com.Proph.M. & a1500(a1450)]; (b) of a person or a ship: to proceed in random motion in response to external forces, be set on a random course, drift; ppl. wandringe as adj., of a ship: randomly moving, drifting; also, of the lightness of a bird’s wing: ?fluttering [last quot.].

(a) To set out on a course, proceed along a prescribed path or toward a specified destination; also, fig. follow a particular path, take a particular direction in life; ~ after, fig. pursue (desires); ~ awei from, take one’s leave of (sb.); ~ wei, set out on (one’s) course; also fig.; (b) to take an erratic, a meandering, or an indirect course, proceed in zigzag fashion; also used fig. of fate [1st quot.]; ~ in speche, ?falter, hesitate; ppl. wandringe as adj., of events: unpredictable; of celestial motion: varying, irregular; of celestial objects: variable or irregular in motion; (c) to depart from a specified course; ~ oute of ordre (inordinateli), fig. err.

In surnames.