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ized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

ail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind Locke.…

To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.

pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently returning.

travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.

arge African antelope (Alcelaphus tunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved.

Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay.

allied genera of the family Serpulidæ. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.…

Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. [Prev. Eng.] Grose.

Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidæ, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.

An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone. Sphenoid bone (Anat.), an irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates. It is composed of several fetal bones which become united the adult. See Alisphenoid, Basisphenoid, Orbitosphenoid, Presphenoid.

m it. -- Split ticket, a ballot containing the names of only a portion of the candidates regularly nominated by one party, other names being substituted for those omitted. [U.S.]

ss sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse commercial sponges having the surface irregularly tufted, as Spongia graminea, and S. equina, variety cerebriformis, of Florida and the West Indies. -- Horse sponge, a coarse commercial sponge, especially Spongia equina. -- Platinum sponge. (Chem.) See under Platinum.…

To spread irregularly, as vines, plants, or tress; to spread ungracefully, as chirography.

To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.