Found 2 items, similar to Straggling.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: straggling
straggling
adj : spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different
directions;
“sprawling handwriting”;
“straggling
branches”;
“straggly hair” [syn:
sprawling,
straggly]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Straggling
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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Straggling
\Strag"gling\,
a. & n. from
Straggle, v.
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