a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio,
mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked,
grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk. Dryden. I have a truant been to chivalry. Shak. To play truant, to stray aw...
