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▪ I. meandering, vbl. n.|miːˈændərɪŋ|
[f. meander v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. meander; an instance of this.
1652A. Wilson in Benlowes Theoph. To Author, Or can the crawling Worm..With its Meandrings finde the center out? 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 382 The grove must be a paradise that is refreshed by thy meanderings! 1865Grote Plato III. 45, I here repeat the precise state of the question, which is very apt to be lost amidst the mæanderings of a Platonic dialogue.
▪ II. ˈmeandering, ppl. a.
[f. meander v. + -ing2.]
That meanders; flexuous, winding.
1680Morden Geog. Rect. Introd. (1685) 6 Winding Bays, Creeks and meandring Inlets. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. iii. 29 Flesh..so clear that every meandring vein is to be seen. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 174 The tentacles..margin the meandering cell. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 142 The river flows in a meandering course.
Hence ˈmeanderingly adv.
1887Stockton in Century Mag. Mar. 886 Through which a narrow path meanderingly ran. |