[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

veering \veer"ing\, a.
   shifting. -- veer"ingly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
veer"ingly 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

veer \veer\, v. i. imp.  p. p. veered; p. pr.  vb. n.
   veering. f. virer cf. sp. virar, birar, ll. virare;
   perhaps fr. l. vibrare to brandish, vibrate cf. vibrate;
   or cf. l. viriae armlets, bracelets, viriola a little
   bracelet cf. ferrule. cf. environ.
   to change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the
   west or north. "his veering gait." --wordsworth.
   1913 webster

         and as he leads, the following navy veers. --dryden.
   1913 webster

         an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as
         passion or as interest may veer about.   --burke.
   1913 webster

   to veer and haul naut., to vary the course or direction;
      -- said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward.
      the wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun.
      1913 webster
see also:
veered veering vibrate ferrule environ to veer and haul 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

veering
     n : the act of turning aside suddenly syn: swerve, swerving
see also:
swerve swerving 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

83 moby thesaurus words for "veering":
   aberrant, aberrative, broken, capricious, careening, catchy,
   choppy, circuitous, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating,
   deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, disconnected,
   discontinuous, discursive, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive,
   fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky,
   heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, indirect, intermittent,
   intermitting, irregular, jerky, labyrinthine, lurching, mazy,
   meandering, nonuniform, out-of-the-way, patchy, planetary,
   rambling, rough, roving, scrappy, serpentine, shifting, snaky,
   snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty,
   staggering, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, uncertain,
   undirected, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular,
   unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, vagrant, variable,
   wandering, wavering, winding, wobbling, wobbly, zigzag

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