N. deviation, swerving, obliquation|, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess

V. alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend, bend, curve, swerve, heel, bear off, gybe, wear, intervert, deflect, divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp, stray, straggle, sidle, diverge, tralineate|, digress, wander, wind, twist, meander, veer, tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of, ramble, rove, drift, go astray, go adrift, yaw, dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for, shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about, waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way

Adj. deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like

Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard

N. circuition, circulation, turn, curvet, excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation, northwest passage, circuit, turning, wrench, evolution, coil, corkscrew

V. turn, bend, wheel, go about, put about, heel, go round to the right about, turn round to the right about, turn on one's heel, make a circle, make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle, go through 180x, go through 360x, pass through 180x, pass through 360x, circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent, "put a girdle round about the earth", go the round, make the round of, wind, circulate, meander, whisk, twirl, twist, make a detour

Adj. turning, circuitous, circumforaneous, circumfluent

Adv. round about

N. circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, # circumbendibus, ambages, loop, winding, zigzag

V. perform a circuit, go round about, go out of one's way, make a detour, meander, lead a pretty dance, beat about the bush, make two bites of a cherry

Adj. circuitous, indirect, roundabout, zigzag, backhanded

Adv. by a side wind, by an indirect course, in a roundabout way, from pillar to post