Available Definitions:
1) a. - Leaping or skipping about.
2) a. - Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.
3) a. - Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.