Word Meanings - MEANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEANDER)

• Twine
• Twist
• wind
• embrace
• entwine
• wreath
• bind
• unite
• braid
• bend
• meander

Related words: (words related to MEANDER)

• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• ENTWINEMENT
  A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• BRAID
  and fro, to weave; akin. to Icel. breg, D. breiden to knit, OS. 1. To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton. 2. To mingle, or to bring
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• TWIST
  1. To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others. 2. To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form
• EMBRACEOR
  One guilty of embracery.
• EMBRACERY
  An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• TWINER
  Any plant which twines about a support.
• BRAIDING
  1. The act of making or using braids. 2. Braids, collectively; trimming. A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding. Thackeray.
• UNITEDLY
  In an united manner. Dryden.
• UNITE
  1. To become one; to be cemented or consolidated; to combine, as by adhesion or mixture; to coalesce; to grow together. 2. To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition.
• WREATHEN
  Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.
• TWISTED
  Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
• TWINE
  1. A twist; a convolution. Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine. Milton. 2. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like;
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• INTWINE
  To twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• ALUNITE
  Alum stone.
• IMBRAID
  See EMBRAID
• UNBRAID
  To separate the strands of; to undo, as a braid; to unravel; to disentangle.
• INTERTWINE
  To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace. Milton.
• REUNITEDLY
  In a reunited manner.
• BRAUNITE
  A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.