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Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.

relative turning in one plane. -- To be off the hinges, to be in a state of disorder or irregularity; to have lost proper adjustment. Tillotson.

To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

or the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.

Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden.

To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. And wild amazement hurries up and down The little number of your doubtful friends. Shak.

evaporation of a volatile liquid. -- Ice master. See Ice pilot (below). -- Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice. -- Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glacé. -- Ice petrel (Zoöl.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floati…

ited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular. "Carol incondite rhymes." J. Philips.

lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoördination of muscular movement (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving. "Irregular incuse square." Dr. W. Smith.

Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating. Milton. Shak.

An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such deviation.

d form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit.

Of irregular form; shapeless. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. "Inordinate desires." Milton. "Inordinate vanity." Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- In*or"di*nate*ness, n.

Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy. [Obs.] South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.

Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

To make irregular; to disorder. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.