Wandering or roving in gaiety or sport; sportive; frolicsome; darting aside, or one way and the other. Wanton boys kill flies for sport. Not a wild and wanton herd.

Moving or flying loosely; playing in the wind. She her unadorned golden tresses wore disheveld, but in wanton ringlets wavd.

Wandering from moral rectitude; licentious; dissolute; indulging in sensuality without restraint as men grown wanton by prosperity. My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness-- .

More appropriately, deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous. Thou art froward by nature, enemy to peace, lascivious wanton. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton. James 5:5.

Disposed to unchastity; indicating wantonness. Isajah 3:16.

Loose; unrestrained; running to excess. How does your tongue grow wanton in her praise!

Luxuriant; overgrown. What we by day lop overgrown, one night or two with wanton growth derides, tending to wild.

Extravagant; as wanton dress.

Not regular; not turned or formed with regularity. The quaint mazes in the wanton green.

A lewd person; a lascivious man or woman.

A trifler; an insignificant flutterer.

A word of slight endearment. Peace, my wanton-- .

To rove and ramble without restraint, rule or limit; to revel; to play loosely. Nature here wantond as in her prime. Her golden tresses wanton in the wind.

To ramble in lewdness; to play lasciviously.

To move briskly and irregularly.