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Meander  v. i.  (past & past part. meandered; pres. part. meandering)  To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran."






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"Meander" Quotes from Famous Books



... looking at his pipe; "I kinder meander round here at this time, when Johnson's away, to ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... clutched one of those short, stumpy whips which are used by the lead driver of a gun. I can see that poor chap in my mind thrashing and urging his team of horses into a gallop, for it was not reckoned wise to meander about the streets of Ypres, and ...
— War and the Weird • Forbes Phillips

... Rock we visited all the State institutions, and among them that for the blind. After ten days of business success, we went to all the towns on the Arkansas River, and were charmed with its scenery, for while the classical meander, it winds in graceful beauty through forests which, although too low and ragged to please the eye, clothe a country otherwise picturesque in character. A strange peculiarity of the Arkansas River is that of the emerald ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms

... my visual camera. Does that enfranchised soul look down from far observatory height at wave-rocked ship like mature manhood on baby rock-a-by? Fanned by soothing breezes of emerald-hued sea, does this glad convalescent meander at will along either tree-fringed shore, with happy child-impulsiveness gathering bouquets of that foliage which is for the 'healing ...
— Oswald Langdon - or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 • Carson Jay Lee

... A viper were more safe within my hand, Than this charm'd engine.— A witch! my wife a witch! The more I strive to unwind Myself from this meander, I the more Therein am intricated. Prithee, woman, ...
— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts

... to-day," said the captain. "Hi! hi! Kitty!" he called to the mare, as she began to meander across the road; and he went out to a tree by the front fence, and sat down on a green bench, beside a work-basket and a half-finished child's dress, and read the country paper which he had taken from the office ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 • Various



Words linked to "Meander" :   perambulation, move, thread, oxbow, ramble, snake, wander, curve, go, amble, stream, saunter, travel



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