#279.  Deviation. —­ N. deviation; swerving &c. v.; obliquation|, warp,
refraction; flection[obs3], flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure[obs3]; declination.
     diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence &c. 291;
zigzag; detour &c. (circuit) 629; divagation.
     [Desultory motion] wandering &c. v.; vagrancy, evagation[obs3];
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[obs3], wear.
     intervert[obs3]; 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[obs3]; 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 shadow, hang on the skirts of; tread on the heels of, follow on the heels of; camp on the trail. 
     Adj. subsequent, next, succeeding; following &c. v.. 
     Adv. behind; in the rear &c. 235, in the train of, in the wake of;
after &c. (order) 63, (time) 117.