Definition of "dandering" []

• Sauntering; loitering; going about aimlessly.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "After some "dandering" about, in order to strike the corner of Major Davidson's fence, which was as good to us as at home, we caught glimpse of a light, which in that place we knew must be a stranger."
• "“No! When I see you dandering through this excellent and hopeful world, objecting, obstructing, and breaking the law, displaying your wit on science and order, on the men who toil so ingloriously to swell and use the knowledge that is salvation, this salvation for which our poor world cries to heaven — —”"
• "What in the ... on earth were you folks dreamin 'of, just dandering ashore like that?"