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Disorder. [Obs.] Holland.

Inordinate; irregular; vicious. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

The state of being disorderly.

Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.

Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Inordinate; disorderly. [Obs.] "With disordinate gestures." Prynne.

Inordinately. [Obs.] E. Hall.

The state of being in disorder; derangement; confusion. [Obs.] Bacon.

To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.

Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory. The exordial paragraph of the second epistle. I. Taylor.

which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration. "The exordium of repentance." Jer. Taylor. "Long prefaces and exordiums. " Addison.

In an extraordinary manner or degree.

The quality of being extraordinary. [R.] Gov. of the Tongue.

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.

ating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. [Written also fjord.]

See Fiord.

ter, where it may passed by man or beast on foot, by wading. He swam the Esk river where ford there was none. Sir W. Scott.