Category:Truant

Tru"ant, n. Etym: [f. truand, of. truant, a vagrant, beggar; of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable, truan a Wretch, ir. trogha miserable, gael. truaghan a poor, distressed, or Wretched creature, truagh wretched.]

Defn: one who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one Who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to stay out of School without leave. Sir t. Browne

Truant Tru"ant, a.

Defn: wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking Duty; as, a truant boy. While truant jove, in infant pride, played barefoot on olympus' side. Trumbull.

Truant Tru"ant, v. i. Etym: [cf. F. truander.]

Defn: to idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant. Shak. By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental Grounds of saving knowledge. Lowell.

Truant Tru"ant, v. t.

Defn: to idle away; to waste. [r.] I dare not be the author of truanting the time. Ford.