sinuo

sĭnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.].

I.

Lit., to bend, wind, curve; to bow, to swell out in curves (perh. not ante-Aug.; most freq. in the poets;

syn.: curvo, flecto): (anguis) sinuat immensa volumine terga,

Verg. A. 2, 208; cf.:

flexos corpus in orbes (anguis),

Ov. M. 9, 64:

(equus) sinuet alterna volumina crurum,

Verg. G. 3, 192:

imposito patulos calamo sinuaverat arcus,

i. e. had bent, stretched, Ov. M. 8, 30; so,

arcum,

id. ib. 8, 381: nervum, Sen. Herc. Fur. 1198:

Euphraten immensum attolli et in modum diadematis sinuare orbes,

Tac. A. 6, 37:

(anguis) immensos saltu sinuatur in arcus,

Ov. M. 3, 42; cf.:

gurges curvos sinuatus in arcus,

id. ib. 14, 51:

cornua Lunae sinuantur,

id. ib. 3, 682; 14, 501; Cels. 8, 1 med.: muri per artem obliqui aut introrsus sinuati, bent inwards, i. e. with retreating angles, Tac. H. 5, 11; cf.:

exercitus in cornua, sinuatā mediā parte, curvatur,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 4:

(Chaucorum gens) donec in Chattos usque sinuetur,

extends in a curve, Tac. G. 35:

Ionia se ambagibus sinuat,

Mel. 1, 17:

oceanum,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 271.—

* II.

Transf., to hollow out, excavate:

adhuc sana rodendo,

Cels. 7, 2, § 21.