Tōrt'ū-ōse'1, a.
a. [Lat. tortuosus, from tortus, twisted, crooked, p. p. of torquere, to twist, wind; It., Sp., & Pg. tortuoso, Pr. tortuos, Fr. tortueux. Cf. TORTUOUS.] Wreathed; twisted; winding.
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Tortuous
Tôrt'ū-oŭs2, a.
a. [See TORTUOSE.] 1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copse-wood grew thick. Macaulay.
Sense 2. Deviating from rectitude; erroneous; wrong; deceitful.
That course became somewhat less tortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jacobites. Macaulay.
Sense 3. Wrong; injurious; tortious. See TORTIOUS. [Obs.] Spenser.