قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

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

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

Injurious: tortious.

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