To turn this way and that; to go or move in a winding course. Formerly also †to turn and wind oneself. Now rare.

intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To bend or turn in a particular direction; to twist about; to writhe.

To extend or proceed in a winding manner; to bend, incline circuitously; to wind about, meander; of a serpent, etc., to crawl sinuously (also refl…

intransitive. To move in a zigzag or indented line; to turn or bend from side to side in one's course; to double. Obsolete.

intransitive. To turn; to wind about.

intransitive. To twist and turn about; to move with a sharply winding course, to zigzag. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative. to dance the hayor hays: to perform winding or sinuous movements (around or among numerous objects); to go through…

intransitive. To move in a winding course; to wander as if in a maze. Also (occasionally) transitive with it. Now rare.

intransitive. To move in a serpentine manner; to follow a tortuous course; to wind.

transitive. to indent the way: in same sense.

intransitive. Of a stream: to twist, wind. Also transitive (reflexive). rare. Now English regional (north-western).

intransitive. To move in a zigzag line; to zigzag. Obsolete.

intransitive. To turn round like a wheel; to revolve; to make circuits, wind about, circle.

intransitive and reflexive. To pass or move in a tortuous manner; to coil or twine about or round; to penetrate into something with a tortuous…

intransitive. To wind or twist about.

To move along in a sinuous course; to go or travel along, up, down, etc. a path or road which turns this way and that.

intransitive. To move in a serpentine manner; to pursue a serpentine or tortuous path; to wind.

intransitive. In extended use.

intransitive. To go or move in a zigzag course; to have a zigzag course or direction. Also quasi-transitive, to zigzag it, to zigzag one's way.

Used to express a movement or direction inclined at an angle to that indicated by zig, v.

With adverbial accusative, as to worm one's way. Also of figurative progress (cf. 10a).

intransitive. To go or proceed in an irregular zigzag manner; to take a zigzag course. ? Obsolete.

intransitive. To bend in and out, to wind, twist; ‘to run in flexures and windings’ (Johnson); to run zig-zag.

as verb phr.: (a) in dancing, denoting the movement in which the lady passes under her partner's arm, their hands being joined; (b) to pass in and…

(intransitive) to take a zigzag course like a switchback railway (sense A. a); (Aeronautics) to make a switchback flight.

intransitive. To move fluidly, quickly, or with a rattling sound; to slither like a rattlesnake. Also transitive: to make (one's way) in this…

intransitive. To make a movement or direction inclined at an angle to that indicated by zag, n. adv.v.