ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

through, via, by way of; in all directions, in all manner of ways; quaquaversum [Lat.],
from the four winds.
Phr. the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
279. Deviation -- N. deviation; swerving &c v.; obliquation † , warp, refraction; flection † ,
flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure † ; declination.
diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence &c 291; zigzag; detour &c
(circuit) 629; divagation.
[Desultory motion] wandering &c v.; vagrancy, evagation † ; 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 † , wear.
intervert † ; 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.
280. [Going before.] Precession -- N. precession, leading, heading; precedence &c 62;
priority &c 116; the lead, le pas; van &c (front) 234; precursor &c 64.
V. go before, go ahead, go in the van, go in advance; precede, forerun; usher in,
introduce, herald, head, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; get the start, have the
start; steal a march; get before, get ahead, get in front of; outstrip &c 303; take
precedence &c (first in order) 62.
Adj. leading, precedent &c v..
Adv. in advance, before, ahead, in the van, in the lead; foremost, headmost † ; in front; at
the head, out in front; way out in front, far ahead.
Phr. seniores priores [Lat.], ahead of his time.
281. [Going after.] Sequence -- N. sequence; coming after &c (order) 63; (time) 117;
following pursuit &c 622.
follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train.
V. follow; pursue &c 622; go after, fly after.
attend, beset, dance attendance on, dog; tread in the steps of, tread close upon; be in
the wake of, be in the trail of, be in the rear of, go in the wake of, go in the trail of, go in
the rear of, follow in the wake of, follow in the trail of, follow in the rear of; follow as a