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vagrant
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
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—a vagrant, is he?†

vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
he a vagrant, a wanderer, who refuses to budge?†
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It is because he will not be a vagrant, then, that you seek to count him as a vagrant.†
It is because he will not be a vagrant, then, that you seek to count him as a vagrant.†
It informed me that the writer had sent to the police, and had Bartleby removed to the Tombs as a vagrant.†

Definitions:

(1) (vagrant)
someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, and especially long ago, you may see vagrant used to emphasize that a poor person wanders from place to place. Even more rarely, it can describe an animal as being in a place it usually is not, or to describe anything that varies or seems random such as the seeming haphazard direction in which a certain weed spreads, or the fleeting quality of something smelled for only an instant.