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In an irregular manner.

In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.

Having leaves irregularly placed.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page.

To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp. The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.

To contract irregularly; to show wrinkless after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

To deny, as a claim; to refuse. The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed. Milman.

In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly. 2 Thess. iii. 6. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. Sir W. Raleigh.

l growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of three, p…

Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.

Jagged or irregularly toothed, as if nibbled out or gnawed. -- E*rose"ly, adv.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. Moore.

Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. Shak. -- Fit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fit"ful*ness, n. The victorius trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. Macaulay.

Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides; -- said of pieces of Chinese porcelain.

To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ. Pope.

Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. [R.] Shak.