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e evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.

forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it. I must excuse what can not be amended. Shak.

In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.

A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.

ething in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; something in addition to the regular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras. [Colloq.]

Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton.

A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.

yers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.

a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.

Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

dy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden.…

The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.

ation of a feeder. Knight. -- Feed screw, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work. -- Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc. -- Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

Singular; wonderful; extraordinary. [Obs.] -- n.

To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. Moore.

Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.

To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill. Burrill.