Noah Webster
Wandering
WANDERING, participle present tense Roving; rambling; deviating from duty.
WANDERING, noun
1. Peregrination; a traveling without a settled course.
2. Aberration; mistaken way; deviation from rectitude; as a wandering from duty.
3. A roving of the mind or thoughts from the point or business in which one ought to be engaged.
4. The roving of the mind in a dream.
5. The roving of the mind in delirium.
6. Uncertainty; want of being fixed.