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and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground. -- Un"du*la`ting*ly. adv.

Wavy or undulating like camlet; veined. Sir T. Herbert.

An open level tract of country; especially "Campagna di Roma." The extensive undulating plain which surrounds Rome.

rd stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.

An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. If the glass of the prisms . . . be without those numberless waves or curls which usually arise from the sand holes. Sir I. Newton.

A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural. [Eng.] Seven thousand broad-tailed sheep grazed on his downs. Sandys.

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

Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

happy chance revert the cruel scence. Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. Thomson.

Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked. -- Sin"u*ous*ly, adv. Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. Milton. Gardens bright with sinuous rills. Coleridge.

Undulating. [R.]

To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air.

The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.

Undulating; undulatory.

glides some trodden serpent on the grass, And long behind wounded volume trails. Dryden. Undulating billows rolling their silver volumes. W. Irving.

To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea. Shak.

Exhibiting a wavelike form or outline; undulating; intended; wavy; as, waved edge.

Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames. Let her glad valleys smile with wavy corn. Prior.