Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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TORT'UOUS, adjective [Latin tortuosus.]
1. Twisted; wreathed; winding; as a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corol, in botany.
2. Tortious. [Not used.] [See Tortious.]
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