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.
The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane. Helix (noun). a caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital. Helix (noun). the incurved margin or rim of the external ear.