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mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.

Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. [Eng.] Johnson.

A regular path or track; a course. Tracing cloth, Tracing paper, specially prepared transparent cloth or paper, which enables a drawing or print to be clearly seen through it, and so allows the use of a pen or pencil to produce a facsimile by following the lines of the original placed beneath.

Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement. If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature. Swift.

Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders. [Colloq. U.S.]

Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.

Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. [Obs.] Boyle.

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta.).

over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.

intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells. Goodale.

Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.

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

Wanting regular features; deformed. "Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." Dryden.

Not formed; not arranged into regular shape, order, or relations; shapeless; amorphous.

she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward.

Similitude between the parts of a whole; as, the uniformity of sides in a regular figure; beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety.

In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly (Math.), to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of two dependent quantities with regard to each other.…

Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

n the unlisted department, that is, admitted to be dealt in on the floor, but not to the "regular list."