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Scarcely had he spoken when he saw the stag veer about and fix its glances rigidly on the bushes to the left side of the glade.

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  1. intransitive verb To turn aside from a course, direction, or purpose; swerve: "a sequence of adventures that veered between tragedy and bleak farce” (Anthony Haden-Guest). See Synonyms at swerve.
  2. intransitive verb To shift clockwise in direction, as from north to northeast. Used of the wind.
  3. intransitive verb Nautical To change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship.
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  • People -- kids walking to school, ladies walking downtown, Mr. Shermerhorn, the mailman -- would just kind of veer around it. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • With every veer, Roberto signaled the Santo Fado to veer. —  Destroyer 106: White Water
  • This calculation, of course, is based on the assumption that the dump ship is released at the optimum time Which is At the veer-off point, exactly twenty-three minutes and fifteen seconds from now Avery nodded. —  Maverick, Isaac Asimov's Robots And Aliens -- Book 5
  • Till Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Azad, veer, and the uncountable, unnamed fight - ers ... —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • When the questions veer (rather alarmingly) to specific areas where O'Leary has increased his body mass, it is time to call a halt. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
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veer:   veered ·  veering ·  veers
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French virer, from Old French.
  2. Middle English veren, from Middle Dutch vieren; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also vere; from French virer = Provencal virar, from Middle Latin virare, turn, sheer off, from Latin viriæ, armlets, bracelets. Cf. ferrule.
 

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