English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Tortuous
(a.)
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
Tortuous
(a.)
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
Tortuous
(a.)
Injurious: tortious.
Tortuous
(a.)
Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from
Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.