n. - One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.
a. - Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
v. i. - To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
v. t. - To idle away; to waste.