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English

Verb

straggling

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Straggling \Strag"gling\,
a. & n. from Straggle, v.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Straggle \Strag"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Straggled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Straggling.] [Freq. of OE. straken to roam, to
stroke. See Stroke, v. t.]
1. To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to
stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line
of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men
should not straggle. --Dryden.
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2. To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
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The wolf spied out a straggling kid. --L'Estrange.
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3. To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches
of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or
widely in growth.
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Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each
side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
--Mortimer.
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4. To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
"Straggling pistol shots." --Sir W. Scott.
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They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the
straggling rocks. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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WordNet straggling
adj : spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different
directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling
branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggly]

Moby Dictionary
aimless , amorphous , broadcast , capricious , casual , circumforaneous ,
desultory , diffuse , disarticulated , discontinuous , discrete ,
discursive , disjunct , disordered , dispersed , dispread ,
disproportionate , disseminated , dissipated , distributed ,
divagatory , dragged out , drawn , drawn out , drifting , elongated ,
errant , erratic , extended , fitful , flitting , floating , footloose ,
footloose and fancy-free , formless , frivolous , fugitive , gadding ,
gratuitous , gypsy-like , gypsyish , haphazard , hit-or-miss ,
immethodical , inchoate , incoherent , indiscriminate , irregular ,
landloping , lengthened , meandering , meaningless , migrational ,
migratory , misshapen , nomad , nomadic , nonsymmetrical ,
nonsystematic , nonuniform , orderless , planless , prolongated ,
prolonged , promiscuous , protracted , pulled , rambling , random ,
ranging , roaming , roving , scattered , senseless , shapeless ,
shifting , sparse , spasmodic , sporadic , spread , spun out , straggly ,
strained , straying , stretched , stretched out , strewn , strolling ,
strown , strung out , systemless , taut , tense , tight , traipsing ,
transient , transitory , transmigratory , unarranged , unclassified ,
undirected , ungraded , unjoined , unmethodical , unordered ,
unorganized , unsorted , unsymmetrical , unsystematic , ununiform ,
vagabond , vagrant , vague , wandering , widespread