1. (n.) A wanderer with no fixed dwelling, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp. 1  2. (a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. 2  3. (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. 3  4. (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious. 5. (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll. Vagabond Jews (perierchomai; the Revised Version (British and American) strolling Jews) were persons who traveled about as professional exorcists (Acts 19:13).
A helix (pl: helixes or helices) is a type of smooth space curve, i.e. a curve in three-dimensional space. It has the property that the tangent line at any point makes a constant angle with a fixed line called the axis.
Helix is the type genus of the family Helicidae. The best-known species include Helix aspersa, the common, or brown garden snail, and Helix pomatia, the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or edible snail. H. pomatia and some other species are eaten as escargots.