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Definition of Roams
1. roam [v] - See also: roam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roams
Literary usage of Roams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"AH, poor Louise ! the livelong day She roams from cot to castle gay; And still
her voice and viol say, Ah, maids, beware the woodland way, Think on Louise, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"... Merrily winds the hunter's horn, The shadows of night are flying. And proud
the stag that roams the forest, And noble the steed with ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1902)
"WHERE THE BIGHORN roams. \V. li. LEE. Last fall the opportunity came for K.
and me to go to the extreme Northwest for Dig- horn and mountain goats. ..."
4. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"view of Jerusalem afforded in this situation, that the eye roams over all the
streets, and around the walls, as if in the survey of a plan or model of the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"A form of mania in •which the patient roams tit night howling like a wolf, or m
which he imagines himself to be a wolf. ..."