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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
verb
1: 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 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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