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Meander   /miˈændər/   Listen
noun
Meander  n.  
1.
A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. "While lingering rivers in meanders glide."
2.
A tortuous or intricate movement.
3.
(Arch.) Fretwork. See Fret.



verb
Meander  v. t.  To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.



Meander  v. i.  (past & past part. meandered; pres. part. 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."





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"Meander" Quotes from Famous Books



... Louise do but listen to his blandishments? And when a young lady listens once, the poet tells us, she "will listen twice." Thus it came to pass that before Julius Westfall had been long gone—perhaps before he was even half seas over—Mr. Nisson began to meander around with Miss Ruff, to quaff the foaming lager, and to be on hand in the Bowery Garden when the band ...
— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe
 
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... portentous gravity, "like the beginnings of a fine woman, that MIGHT show up, if you gave her time, into a first-class goddess. Of course she ain't all here; other boxes with sections of her, I reckon, are under way from her factory, and will meander along in the course of the year. Considerin' this as a sample—I think, gentlemen," he added, with gloomy precision, "we are prepared to accept it, and ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
 
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... vast meander is, Where hearts confusedly stray; Where few do hit, whilst thousands miss, The ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
 
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... in the world. The principal rivers are the Derwent, Ouse, Clyde, Jordan, Coal, Huon, and Dee, in the south; and the Tamar, North and South Esk, Macquarie, Lake, Mersey, Leven, Arthur, Blyth, Forth, and Meander, in the north. The chief bays are Adventure Bay, in Bruni Island, so named after Captain Furneaux's discovery ship, and where Cook anchored in his third voyage; Fortescue, Port Arthur, Fredrick Hendrick's (so named by Tasman), Prosser's, Spring, Oyster, ...
— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West
 
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... onward in the direction of Jerusalem, came up with the enemy on the banks of the Meander. The Turks contested the passage of the river, but the French bribed a peasant to point out a ford lower down: crossing the river without difficulty, they attacked the Turks with much vigour, and put them to flight. Whether the Turks were really defeated, or ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
 
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