To turn; to turn aside, off, or away; to turn back, retreat; to swerve, decline. Also figurative. Obsolete.

To turn aside, deviate in movement from the straight or direct course.

Of persons: To move or go, to swerve or turn, aside, away, or awayward. Also in figurative context.

intransitive. To turn or bend aside out of the straight course (literal and figurative). Obsolete.

intransitive. To go or veer off to one side; to change one's direction of travel. Also: to turn oneself so as to face to one side. Also figurative…

intransitive (transferred and figurative from 6.) To withdraw, turn aside, diverge, deviate; to desist (from a course of action, etc.). to depart from…

To turn or bend aside; to deviate (from the straight course); to turn away. Obsolete.

In similar use without adverb. Obsolete.

intransitive (for reflexive). To turn aside out of one's course; to deviate, digress (literal and figurative). (The earliest sense exemplified; now ar…

intransitive. To go out of the way, to deviate.

intransitive. To turn aside. Also transitive. To move (a person) aside. to wave one's way: ? to take a divergent route.

intransitive. To go aside or depart from the course or track; to diverge, deviate, swerve.

intransitive. To deviate, go astray, transgress; to depart from a course of action considered to be right or correct. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative. To deviate, go out of course, go or move unsteadily. (Often with direct allusion to sense 1.)

intransitive. To turn away or aside from the direct road; to take a turning off a road, esp. a main road; cf. turn-off, n. 1. Also: (of a road or…

intransitive. To deviate; to depart from a rule or direction. Obsolete.

intransitive. To turn aside from the course or track; to turn out of the way; to swerve.

transferred. To drift, deviate insensibly (into, from). Obsolete.

to flinch out: to swerve, deviate, be deflected. Obsolete. rare.

To turn to one side or from a straight line; to change its direction; to deviate from its course.

intransitive. To go astray, diverge.

intransitive. To deviate or start off abruptly from a line or previous course; to project; to fall off. Also with away, off; see to break off 3…

To diverge or deflect; to run or trickle off.

transferred and figurative. Chiefly with off: To change one's course; to depart, go away; to go off in a new direction or on the other ‘tack’.

= sense 32.

To move or be situated obliquely; to incline; to swerve (aside); U.S. to ‘make tracks’.