(n.) One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
(n.) The language used by the gypsies.
(n.) A dark-complexioned person.
(n.) A cunning or crafty person
(a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
(v. i.) To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
(3) A third clone hybridized to at least 17 sites on the chromosomes indicating the presence of repetitive sequences in the gypsy flanking DNA.
(4) She also warned over increasing stigma being shown toward Gypsies, Travellers and Roma struggling to find accommodation.
(5) In 2012-13, 12% of prisoners at HMP Elmley, Kent, 11% at HMP Gloucester and 10% at HMP Winchester identified themselves as being Gypsy, Romany or Traveller.
(6) The population understudy was composed of 156 children, with ages ranging from 1 to 14 years; they were stratified in three socio-environmental groups (white-family unit, gypsy-family unit and orphanage), and also divided into subgroups according to age.
(7) In the other, unstable mutator strain (MS) which is derived from SS, the gypsy copy number and the frequency of its transposition are greatly increased.
(8) Earlier this year, I stayed in a remodelled gypsy caravan in the garden of the owner’s home while making my way back to the UK via Burgundy.
(9) These three uncommon features of the gypsy promoter may be characteristic of a subset of pol II promoters, exemplified by certain retrotransposons and developmental genes of Drosophila and by Tdt, the mouse terminal deoxynucleotidyl-transferase (TdT) gene.
(10) His own favourite among his books published was The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997), about his grandfather, John Sampson.
(11) We have studied the HLA-class I and class II antigen distribution in a sample of 75 Spanish Gypsies and 74 Spanish non-Gypsies by serology, restriction fragment length polymorphism, and protein chain reaction and hybridization with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes.
(12) The patients were assigned to one of two groups depending on their ethnic origin - Gypsy or non-Gypsy.
(13) Also unlike most pol II promoters, the gypsy promoter, which lacks a TATA motif, was found to have an essential sequence at the transcription initiation site, mutation of which abolishes transcription.
(14) Aldehyde dehydrogenase I isozyme deficiency was found in four persons including two gypsies.
(15) • Gîtes (sleeping 4-7 from €450 a week, 020-3603 1160, babyfriendlyboltholes.co.uk Croas Men farm, near Morlaix Accommodation options at this unusual campsite include ridge tents and a gypsy caravan but the best option for families is La Maisonnette, a simple wooden house overlooking a donkey meadow.
(16) The TEs that were observed generally exhibited heterogeneous distributions, with the exception of F, gypsy and 412 which were ubiquitous, and 297, G, Sancho 2, hobo and FB which were not detected.
(17) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
(18) Only by reaching a very old age no old gypsy can reach an important position in his society.
(19) According to Trevor Phillips , former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for Gypsies and Travellers "Great Britain is still like the American Deep South for black people in the 1950s.
(20) His story of a Gypsy drug dealer threatened with eviction from his caravan in a Wiltshire wood became, rather than drowning in over-ambitious "Themes", fantastically mercurial.
Vagrant
Definition:
(a.) Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
(a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
(n.) One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
Example Sentences:
(1) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(2) Del Seymour knows all about the pimps, drug dealers and vagrants of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district – because he used to be one of them.
(3) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(4) Although cerebral damage was even more frequent among vagrants and others dependent on social support, half the men living in their own homes were also affected.
(5) All of life came in – vagrants, prostitutes, pimps, addicts, young people having a laugh, people who'd had too much to drink, police officers finishing shifts, nurses starting shifts, plus the person like my dad who was about to treat his family to a bucket.
(6) When law enforcement officers and policymakers – those who should be setting our collective moral compass – treat society’s most vulnerable with such contempt, is it any wonder that some people set out to rid the world of “the most foul vagrants,” as one New Yorker described homeless people on the Peek-a-Boo website ?
(7) Le Monde said: "The document specifies the techniques used to spy on the communications of the French diplomats: Highlands for pirating computers using remotely delivered cookies; Vagrant for capturing information from screens; and finally PBX, which is the equivalent of eavesdropping on the discussion of the French diplomatic service as if one was participating in a conference call."
(8) A point prevalence study design was used to ascertain the demographic, physical, mental illness and alcohol abuse characteristics of a sample of a vagrant population which inhabits the downtown area of an American Northwest urban community.
(9) Although cerebral damage was more frequent among vagrants and other persons dependent on social support, 50% of the alcoholics living in their own homes were also affected.
(10) Mobilization of vagrant heavy metals may be significantly increased by contact of baghouse dusts or scrubber slurries with acidic effluents emanating from acid plants designed to produce H2SO4 as a smelter by-product.
(11) These findings have important health implications for those carrying out post mortem examinations from these groups as well as for those involved with the continuing care of immigrant or vagrant populations.
(12) Manet certainly painted the city's darker corners: the paupers, prostitutes, vagrants and the places they frequented, but it was with the eye of an observer, says Stéphane Guégan, curator of the 2011 Manet exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
(13) During the time I wandered through foreign countries like a vagrant, the time I had to live under an alias, and the time when I had to live like a slave in someone else’s home, I looked back on those memories and found solace in them.
(14) The tail-end of hurricane Katia brought in many buff-breasted sandpipers from North America to Somerset and Pembrokeshire, and a single vagrant monarch butterfly arrived at Ringstead Bay in Dorset.
(15) Only then was there talk of copycat crimes, of gangs dressed like Alex threatening beating up vagrants.
(16) The statement said Simelane had been "left to his own devices, without continued medication, a vagrant living on buses without help or supervision from our public services: this is the person who killed Christina on one of those buses."
(17) The survey was conducted in two Metropolitan courts; one in an area frequented by vagrants, and the other in a mixed middle-class and working-class area.Few of the offenders were casual roisterers and the majority had a serious drinking problem.
(18) He also cracked down on winos and street vagrants; if squeegee merchants had existed, no doubt they would have been added to the list.
(19) In 1909, five leprosaria were established in the leprosy endemic areas by local government to admit vagrant leprosy patients who were estimated as one thousand and two hundred.
(20) These suggest that tuberculosis in vagrants may differ from the usual stage of tuberculosis diagnosed in elderly persons in terms of response to anti-tuberculosis agents and potential recovery.