refraction; flection†, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure†;
declination.
diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence &c 291;
zigzag; detour &c (circuit) 629; divagation.
[Desultory motion] wandering &c v.; vagrancy, evagation†; bypaths
and crooked ways; byroad.
[Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling &c v.; knight's move at
chess.
V. alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve
&c 245; 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 &c 291; 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 &c (oscillate) 314; go
out of one's way &c (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.
Adj. deviating &c v.; 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 &c 629.
obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.