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Folded in tortuous windings. A highly convoluted brain. North Amer. Rev.

The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion. O'er the calm sea, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats. Thomson.

lso, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

To press forward in a winding way; as, to corksrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc. Knight.

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks. Spenser.

A mill for grinding tin ore.

Any turn or winding. The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands. Shak.

Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.

A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker.

Curled with the ripple of the water. [Poetic] You numphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks . . . Leave jour crisp channels. Shak.

The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

To emit a grinding or craunching noise. The crunching and ratting of the loose stones. H. James.

To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz.

A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. Under a coronet, his flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. Milton.

e terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment of the principal, and the debtor company cannot redeem the stock…

llel to the celestial equator. -- Declination compass (Physics), a compass arranged for finding the declination of the magnetic needle. -- Declination of the compass or needle, the horizontal angle which the magnetic needle makes with the true north-and-south line.

A binding up; a bandaging. Wiseman.

again a power of the first rank. Macaulay. Dependent covenant or contract (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed. -- Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent va…

Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.