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Meander   /miˈændər/   Listen
Meander

verb
(past & past part. meandered; pres. part. meandering)
1.
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


Words linked to "Meander" :   curved shape, snake, saunter, promenade, move, ramble, curve, oxbow, watercourse, weave, stream, amble, stroll, perambulation, wind, travel, thread, go, locomote


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