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normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular. Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when m…

One who is irregular. Baxter.

The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.

In an irregular manner.

Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin.

In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.

Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity. "An abnormity . . . like a calf born with two heads." Mrs. Whitney.

Abnormal; irregular. Hallam. A character of a more abnormous cast than his equally suspected coadjutor. State Trials.

Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. Lindley.

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.

gitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

Irregular; departing from common or established rules.

With irregularity.

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.…

Having leaves irregularly placed.

Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

l has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.