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winding1555

That follows a sinuous course, takes or has a curvilinear form, or is full of bends and turns. Of the course or outline of natural features…

straying1585

That strays, in the senses of the verb. Of a thing. †straying star n. a planet; cf. errant, adj. 9b.

crankling1596

Twisting or winding in and out.

meandrian1608

Resembling or reminiscent of the meanders of a river; winding.

tortive1609

Twisting, twisted, tortuous.

meandered1612

Winding, labyrinthine. Obsolete.

serpentine1615

Having a direction or following a course resembling that of a serpent in motion; tortuous, sinuous, winding. Also, esp. in reference to canals or…

snailing1615

Winding spirally, or like the tracks of snails.

meandering1617

That meanders; winding, twisting. In quot. 1661 figurative: deliberately complicating.

meandrous1639

Full of or characterized by meanders; winding.

meandric1658

= meandrous, adj.

wandering1667

Of roads, rivers, etc.: Lying in an irregularly bending line, winding, meandering; also figurative. Also transferred (Physiology) as the…

wimpling1721

Winding, meandering (esp. of streams); also, rippling. Also transferred in poetic use.

spiral1796

Curving continuously round a fixed point in the same plane at a steadily increasing (or diminishing) distance from it.

circumvolutory1834

Winding about.

wormy1869

figurative. Grovelling; earthy; crooked, tortuous.

twistering1872

winding, twisting.

twistified1872

twistical1890

Somewhat twisted or crooked; figurative not straight or plain in character; morally or mentally tortuous.

Subcategories:

— turned back (5)
— that has something winding over its surface (1)
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