A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
Elusive or difficult to retain.
Fleeing or running away; escaping.
Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but is not persistently naturalized.
A very thin person.
Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.
A small flag used as a signal.
Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.