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Meander

noun

A bend or curve, as in a stream or river.

An aimless amble on a winding course. Synonym: ramble.

verb

(past & past part. meandered; pres. part. meandering)

To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind. "The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"

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"Meander" Quotes from Famous Books

... in their utmost simplicity in the echinus (In) and the abacus (Yo) of a Greek Doric cap. The former was adorned with painted leaf forms, characteristically feminine, and the latter with the angular fret and meander (Illustration 12). The Ionic capital, belonging to a more feminine style, exhibits the abacus subordinated to that beautiful cushion-shaped member with its two spirally marked volutes. This, though a less rational ...

— The Beautiful Necessity • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... lavishes on cities, and perchance as it has never set before—where there is but a solitary marsh hawk to have his wings gilded by it, or only a musquash looks out from his cabin, and there is some little black-veined brook in the midst of the marsh, just beginning to meander, winding slowly round a decaying stump. We walked in so pure and bright a light, gilding the withered grass and leaves, so softly and serenely bright, I thought I had never bathed in such a golden flood, without a ripple or a murmur to it. The west side of every wood and rising ground gleamed ...

— Walking • Henry David Thoreau

... house the road showed a tendency to meander, and as I was getting pretty hungry and counted on luncheon with the laird, be he patriot or traitor, I left the highway and followed a path across a clover field. Though the house and its farm were so near, and I could see half ...

— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston

... is the long bent or sedge, shooting rankly up among the sweeter grass, and telling surely of land overcharged with water. There is no escape from the fact that Ireland as a country is cursed with defective natural drainage. The fall of the greater rivers is so slight that they meander hither and thither in "S's," as they say here, and only require a little surplus on the average rainfall to overflow the more valuable land. And it is astonishing how quickly good land left untilled reverts to its primeval condition, or, ...

— Disturbed Ireland - Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. • Bernard H. Becker

... cover the graves of their dead. On the nearer side from off to left appeared a smaller stream which wound across the meadow and emptied into the Swan. At intervals during the day their trail had bordered this little river, which Clare had christened the Meander. ...

— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner

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