Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wander

Wander , intransitive verb

[Old English wandren, wandrien, Anglo-Saxon wandrian; akin to German wandern to wander; from Anglo-Saxon windan to turn. See Wind to turn.]

1.
To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. — Heb. xi. 37
He wandereth abroad for bread. — Job xv. 23
2.
To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
When God caused me to wander from my father's house. — Gen. xx. 13
O, let me not wander from thy commandments. — Bible (KJV) - Psalm cxix. 10
3.
To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.

Wander , transitive verb

To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through. [Rare]
[Elijah] wandered this barren waste. — Milton