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Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Rough; uneven. Boyle.

Uneven; ridgy. [R.] Holinshed.

Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface.

The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.

e of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. Grose. -- Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. Wright. -- Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts.…

Broken; uneven. [Obs.] "Confragose cataracts." Evelyn.

ss a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped.

Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.

Without events; tame; monotomous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.

Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep." Dryden.

Rough; uneven; causing one to hobble; as a hobbly road.

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

Unequal; uneven; various. [Obs.] Chaucer.

qual; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc. There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to wal…

Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth. Addison.