Obs. rare. [ad. L. anfract-us (also occas. used), a breaking round, a bending, f. anfring-ĕre, f. an- = am-, amb- about + frang-ĕre to break.] A winding, a circuitous route; a sinuosity.
1567. Maplet, Greene Forest, 86. The Fleck … goeth with rowling foote, and hath often anfractes or turnings.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 576. The numerous anfracts and intricate windings thereof.
1714. Derham, Astro-Theol., 6. Anfractus or Roughnesses on the Concave part of the enlighten’d Edge.
