Tortuous

Tortuous (tortuous)
a.	(?)
Tor"tu*ous
[OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. tortueux. See Torture.]

Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.

The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay.

Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay.

Injurious: tortious.

[Obs.]

Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

[Obs.] Skeat.

Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer.

--Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.

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