 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
meander
noun: a curve in a stream
verb: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular
course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout
wanders through the entire body" [syn: {weave}, {wind}, {thread},
{wander}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meander \Me*an"der\, noun [L. Maeander, orig., a river in Phrygia,
proverbial for its many windings, Gr. ?: cf. F. m['e]andre.]
1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders
of the veins and arteries. --Sir M. Hale.
While lingering rivers in meanders glide. --Sir R.
Blackmore.
2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
3. (Arch.) Fretwork. See {Fret}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meander \Me*an"der\, verb (used with an object)
To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous. --Dryton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meander \Me*an"der\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Meandered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Meandering}.]
To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran.
--Coleridge.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "meander":
Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, S-curve,
ambages, amble, anfractuosity, bat around, bend, bending, bends,
bow, bowing, bum, can of worms, circuitousness, circumambages,
circumbendibus, circumlocution, circumvolution, coils, complex,
conflexure, contort, convolution, corkscrew, count ties, crinkle,
crinkling, curves, deflection, divagate, drift, err, excurse,
flection, flex, flexuosity, flexuousness, flexure, flit, gad,
gad about, gallivant, geanticline, geosyncline, go about,
go adrift, go astray, go the rounds, hairpin turn, hit the road,
hit the trail, hobo, inflection, intorsion, intort, involution,
jaunt, jungle, knock about, knock around, knot, labyrinth, loops,
maze, meandering, mesh, mess, mooch, mosey, nomadize, oxbow,
peregrinate, pererrate, perplex, prowl, ramble, range, ravel,
reflection, rivulation, roam, rove, run about, saunter, scallop,
screw, serpentine, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slink,
slinkiness, snafu, snake, snake pit, snakiness, snarl, straggle,
stray, stroll, sweep, swirl, tangle, tangled skein, torsion,
tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, traipse, tramp, turn, turning,
twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, twisting, undulation,
vagabond, vagabondize, walk the tracks, wander, wave, waving,
wayfare, webwork, wheels within wheels, whirl, whorl, wilderness,
wind, winding, worm, wring, zigzag
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
MEANDER, noun To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the
ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of
Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing
when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.
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