Vagrancy (people) For other uses, see Vagrant and Vagabond. A vagrant or a vagabond is a person, often in poverty, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular employment or income. Other synonyms include tramp, hobo, and drifter.
The heliotrope is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The heliotrope was invented in 1821 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The word heliotrope is taken from the Greek: helios (Greek: á¼¥Î»Î¹Î¿Ï), meaning sun, and tropos (Greek: ÏÏÏÏÎ¿Ï), meaning turn. It is a fitting name for an instrument which can be turned to reflect the sun toward a given point.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: hypertrophied, enlarged(adj) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells. hypertrophied myocardial fibers. blown-up, enlarged(adj) as of a photograph; made larger. the enlarged photograph revealed many details.