Strag"gler (?), n. 1.
One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course,
or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the
rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
2. A roving vagabond. Shak.
3. Something that shoots, or spreads out,
beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
Let thy hand supply the pruning knife,
And crop luxuriant stragglers.
Dryden.
4. Something that stands alone or by
itself.