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That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. The whole employ of body and of mind. Pope. In one's employ, in one's service.

owth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, parts…

e hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours. It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay. Macaulay.…

Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.

To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.

toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope.

To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order; as, to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment. Burrill.

The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; - - considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

A prefix, meaning equally; as, equidistant; equiangular.

Equiangular. [Obs.] Boyle.

arments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.

Irregular; changeable. "Erratic fever." Harvey. Erratic blocks, gravel, etc. (Geol.), masses of stone which have been transported from their original resting places by the agency of water, ice, or other causes. -- Erratic phenomena, the phenomena which relate to transported materials on the earth's surface.…

Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman.

A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. B. Jonson.

A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop. "So many jags or escalops." Ray.

ch annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp. the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and August.

Regularly of the pulse.

Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.