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In an odd manner; unevently. [R.]

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.

A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level.

To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road. "Rough, uneven ways." Shak.

In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. Shak.

To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. I. Taylor. She smoothed the ruffled seas. Dryden.

Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road. The rugged bark of some broad elm. Milton.

To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scoth paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. Burke.

Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.

Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.

The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.

A uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.

A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

A sharp or uneven edge on a board that is cut from a log not perfectly squared, or that is made in the process of squaring. See Wany, a.

of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.

Unevenness; inequality of surface. Sir I. Newton.

earisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak.