#279. Deviation. -- N. deviation; swerving &c. v.; obliquation|, warp, refraction; flection[obs], flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure[obs]; declination.
diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence &c. 291; zigzag; detour &c. (circuit) 629; divagation.
[Desultory motion] wandering &c. v.; vagrancy, evagation[obs]; 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[obs], wear.
intervert[obs]; 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.