Tortuous /(?)/

Tor·tu·ous

Tortuous

a.
  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 copsewood grew thick.
  2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
    That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites.
  3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
  4. Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. (Astrol.) [Obs.]
    Infortunate ascendent tortuous.