Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TORT'U-OUS
TORT'U-OUS, a. [L. tortuosus; Fr. tortueux.]
- Twisted; wreathed; winding; as, a tortuous train: a tortuos leaf or corol, in botany. Milton. Martyn.
- Tortious. [Not used. See Tortious.] Spenser.
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