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.
A tornado is defined in the dictionary as a rotating column of air ranging in width from a few yards to more than a mile and whirling at destructively high speeds, usually accompanied by a funnel-shaped downward extension of a cumulonimbus cloud.