undulary 
The blasts and undulary breaths thereof maintain no 
certainty in their course. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vii. 17. 
undulate (un'du-lat), . [< L. unditlutua, waved, 
wavy, diversified as with waves, waved, < *tm- 
dula, a wave, dim. of unda, a wave: see ound, 
and ef. undine, undulous, etc.] Wavy; having 
a waved Surface, (a) In tot., wavy; repand; bend- 
ing, or having a margin which bends, slightly inward 
and outward: as, an undulate leaf; undulate strire. Also 
undale, undulated. Compare sinuate (i>). (ft) In zool., 
marked with wavy lines. Specifically, in entom. : (1) Wavy; 
forming a series of gentle curves which meet in reversed 
curves: as, an umMatelineor margin. (2) Rising and fall- 
ing in gentle curves : said of surfaces and also of margins. 
(3) Marked with parallel wavy lines. 
undulate (un'du-lat), v.; pret. and pp. undu- 
lated, ppr. undulating. [< undulate, a.; cf. F. 
onduler = Sp. undular, ondular = It. ondulare, 
wave, have a waving motion, < NL. as if *un- 
dulare, rise and fall in waves, wave ; cf. L. un- 
dulatus, waved, wavy, diversified as with waves, 
< *nndula, dim. of unda, wave: see undulate, a.] 
1. intrans. To have a wavy motion ; rise and fall 
in waves; move in waves. 
The dread ocean undulating wide. 
Thomson, Summer, 1. 982. 
Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bells 
Just undulates upon the list'ning ear. 
Cowper, Task, i. 175. 
=Syn. Water, etc. See fluctuate. 
II. trans. To cause to wave, or move in 
waves ; cause to vibrate. 
Breath vocalized, that is, vibrated and undulated. 
Holder. 
undulately (un'du-lat-li), adv. In an undulate 
manner or form. 
Sinuately or undulately cut at the apex. 
H. C. Wood, Fresh- Water Algte, p. 144. 
undulating (un'du-la-ting), jj. a. 1. Waving; 
vibrating; moving in waves. 
All the winds wandering along the shore 
Undulate with the undulating tide. 
Shelley, Epipsychidion. 
2. Having a form or outline resembling that 
of a series of waves ; wavy. A stretch of country is 
said to be undulating when it presents a succession of ele- 
vations and depressions, resembling the waves of the sea. 
The Christ is a better character, has more beauty and 
grace than is usual with Rubens ; the outline remarkably 
undulating, smooth, and flowing. Sir J. Reynolds. 
3. In zool., undulate. 
undulatiugly (un'du-la-ting-li), adv. In an un- 
dulating manner ; in waves. 
undulation (un-du-la'shon), n. [= F. ondula- 
tion = Sp. undulation = fg. undulaqao = It. on- 
dolazione, < NL. *unditlatio(n-), < *undulare, un- 
dulate: see undulate.'] 1. The act of undulat- 
ing ; a waving motion ; fluctuation ; in physics, 
wave-motion: as, the undulations of water or 
air or the ether. Undulations are said to be progres- 
sive when they successively traverse the different parts of 
a body, as the waves of the sea ; and they are said to be sta- 
tionary when all the particles of a body begin their vibra- 
tions simultaneously and end them at the same instant. 
See wave and wave-motion. 
Worms and leeches move by undulation. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
Wide dash'd the Waves in undulation vast. 
Thomson, Spring, 1. 314. 
2. A wavy form; a form resembling that of a 
wave or waves; waviness. 
The root of the wilder sort [is] incomparable for its 
crisped undulations. Evelyn, Sylva, ii. 4. 
This Wideness had been excusable, if your Lines had 
been straight^ but they were full of odd kind of Undula- 
tions and Windings. If you can write no otherwise, one 
may read your Thoughts as soon as your Characters. 
Howell, Letters, I. v. 28. 
3. In patJiol., a particular uneasy sensation of 
anundulatory motion in the heart. 4 . In surg., 
a certain motion of the matter of an abscess 
when pressed, which indicates its fitness for 
opening. 5. A set of waved lines ; a surface 
so marked, or such an appearance ; vermicula- 
tion; waviness. 6. In geom., the coming of 
a plane curve into a higher contact than usual 
with its tangent without contrary flexure. 
undulationist (un-du-la'shon-ist), n. [< undu- 
lation + -ist.] One who advocates some un- 
dulatory theory, especially (and originally) the 
undulatory theory of light. Whewell. 
undulative (un'du-la-tiv), a. [< undulate + 
-ive.] Undulatory. '[Rare.] 
undulatory (un'd'u-la-to-ri), a. [= F. ondula- 
toire = Sp. Pg. undulaiorio = It. ondulatorio; 
as undulate + -ory.] 1. Having the character 
of an undulation ; moving in or marked by un- 
dulations; undulating: as, an undulatory cur- 
rent of electricity; the undulatory motion of 
water, of air, or other fluid. 2. Having the 
form or appearance of a series of waves. 
6604 
Between their [mountains'] summits and inland plain, 
on which the celebrated deposit of nitrate of soda lies, 
there is a high undulatory district. 
Darwin, Geol. Observations, II. x. 302. 
3. Of or pertaining to undulation; assuming 
undulating movements of some medium as the 
physical explanation of some class or group of 
phenomena : as, the undulatory theory of light. 
Undulatory current. See electric current, under cur- 
renti. Undulatory theory of light. See lights. 
undullH (un-dul'), a. [< ME. undull ; < un-l + 
dull.] Not dull ; sharp. 
With a dart mdull that the duke bare. 
Destruction of Tray (E. E. T. S.), 1. 18908. 
undulPt (un-dul'), v. t. [< M-2 -I- dull.] Tore- 
move dullness from. 
UnduHing their grossness. 
Whitloe.k, Manners of Eng. People, p. 477. 
Mrs. Tulliver, . . . after running her head against the 
same resisting medium for thirteen years, would go at it 
again to-day with undulled alacrity. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, L viii. 
undulose (un'du-los), a. [< NL. "undulostis, 
wavy: see undulous.~\ Undulous. Quart. Jour. 
Geol. Soc., XLV. 343. [Bare.] 
undulous (un'du-lus), a. [< NL. "undulosus, 
wavy,< ii.'unduta, a wave: see undulate.] Un- 
dulating; rising and falling in waves or like 
waves. 
He felt the undulous readiness of her volatile paces 
under him. It. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Ixv. 
unduly (un-du'li), adv. In an undue manner 
or degree; wrongly; improperly; excessively; 
inordinately. 
undurable (un-du'ra-bl), a. Not durable; not 
lasting. Imp. Diet. 
unduiably (un-du'ra-bli), adt'. In an undura- 
ble manner; not lastingly. 
undustt (un-dusf), t>. t. [< un- 2 + dust.] To 
free from dust. W. Man tayue, Devoute Essays, 
ii. 6. 
unduteous (un-du'te-us), a. Undutiful. Dry- 
den, -33neid, viii. 429. 
Undutiful (un-du'ti-ful), a. 1. Not dutiful. 
I know my duty ; you are all 
SIuOc., 3 Hen. VI., v. 5. 33. 
2. Not characterized by a sense of duty or 
obedience ; rebellious ; irreverent. 
Undutiful proceedings and rebellions against the su- 
preme natural power. 
Jer. Taylor, Rule of Conscience, iii. 5. 
undutifully (un-du'ti-ful-i), adv. In an unduti- 
ful manner ; not according to duty ; in a diso- 
bedient manner. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Sat- 
ires, iy. 
undutifulness (un-du'ti-ful-nes), n. The state 
or character of being Undutiful. 
undy, a. See unde". 
undying (un-di'ing), a. Not dying; not sub- 
ject to death; immortal; hence, unceasing; im- 
perishable. 
Chains of darkness, and the undying worm. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 739. 
The undying barytone of the sea. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 240. 
undyingly (un-di'ing-li), ade. Immortally; 
imperishably ; unceasingly. Scribner's Mag., 
IV. 102. 
unclyingness (un-di'ing-nes), n. The charac- 
ter or state of being undying; immortal. S. 
Brougliton, Cometh Up as a Flower, xii. 
unearedt (un-erd'), o. Not eared or plowed; un- 
tilled. Shak., Sonnets, iii. 
unearned (un-ernd'), a. [< ME. unerned; < MX- 1 
+ earned.] Not earned ; not merited by labor 
or services; not won: as, an unearned salary; 
unearned dividends Unearned increment, the in- 
crease of value of land resulting from general causes, such 
as the growth of population and consequent demand, as 
distinguished from increase due to the labor or improve- 
ments put upon the land by its individual owner. Accord- 
ing to the views of some economists, the unearned incre- 
ment rightfully belongs to the community whose growth 
is one of the causes or conditions of it, and should be taken 
from the owner by taxation in some form. According to 
the views of others, the individual enjoyment of it is an 
essential condition of securing general cooperation in the 
promotion of public and local improvements, and public 
spirit and enterprise. 
unearth (un-erth'), v. t. [< n-2 + eartli.] 1. 
To drive or bring forth from an earth or burrow ; 
drive from any underground hole or burrow; 
draw from the earth. 
A rough terrier of the hills ; 
By birth and call of nature pre-ordained 
To hunt the badger and unearth the fox. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, iv. 
2. To uncover from the earth ; dig out of the 
ground ; exhume, as fossils ; exfodiate. 
To unearth the root of an old tree. 
Wordsworth, Simon Lee. 
uneaths 
3. To bring to light; discover; find out; dis- 
close. 
It was the labours of Dr. Pertz and his agents that 
unearthed the Historia PontiflcaHs of John of Salisbury 
among the MSS. of the Bern Library. 
Stuuos, Medieval and Modern Hist, p. 68. 
unearthliness (un-erth'li-nes), K. The char- 
acter or state of being unearthly. W. Black, 
A Daughter of Heth, iii. 
unearthly (un-erth'li), a. Not earthly ; not ter- 
restrial ; supernatural; not like, or as if not 
proceeding from, anything belonging to the 
earth; unworldly; hence, weird; appalling: as, 
an unearthly cry or sight. 
The night of our arrival was one of those unearthly 
moonlight nights which belong to Italy. 
Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 31. 
unease (un-eV), . [< ME. unese; < wn- 1 + ease, 
n.] Trouble ; misery ; uncomfortable state or 
condition. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
My gret unease fulle ofte I meene [moan]. 
Rom. of the Hose, 1. 2596. 
It was not any palace corridor 
There where we were, but dungeon natural, 
With floor uneven and unease of light. 
Longfellow, tr. of Dante's Inferno, xxxiv. 99. 
uneaset (un-ez'), v. t. [ME. unesen; < un- 1 + 
ease, v.] To make uneasy. 
Cannetes olde eke tyme is nowe to wede, 
And of to kytte it that thaire roote uneseth. 
Palladius, Hnsbondrie (E. E. T. .), p. 81. 
uneased (un-ezd'), a. Not eased or made easier. 
We leave their sorrows in many degrees unrelieved 
and uneased. Jer. Taylor, Holy Dying, 1. 4. 
uneasily (un-e'zi-li),a(?fl. 1. In an uneasy man- 
ner; with uneasiness or pain. 2. With diffi- 
culty; not readily. Milton, Hist. Eng., v. 
uneasiness (un-e'zi-nes), n. The state of being 
uneasy; want of ease or comfort, physical or 
mental. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 2. 27. 
uneasy (un-e'zi), a. 1. Not easy either in body 
or in mind; feeling some lack of ease, either 
mental or physical ; disturbed ; unquiet. 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 
SAafr.,2Hen. IV., iii. 1. 31. 
2. Not easy or elegant in manner or style ; not 
graceful; constrained; stiff; awkward. 
Shall I live at Home a stiff melancholy poor Man of 
Quality, grow uneasy to my Acquaintance as well as my- 
self, by fancying I'm slighted where I am not ? 
Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, ii. 1. 
3. Causing pain, trouble, constraint, discom- 
fort, or want of ease; cramping; constraining; 
irksome; disagreeable. 
The wales were exceeding uneasie. For they were 
wonderfull hard. Coryat, Crudities, I. 82. 
He puts a force and constraint upon himself which is 
uneasie to any man, and he lets the vizard fall off some- 
times when it is more observed than he thinks. 
Stillingfteet, Sermons, II. v. 
This account was very uneasy to me. 
T. Ellwood, Life (ed. Howells), p. 220. 
Walpole had, it is plain, an uneasy consciousness of the 
frivolity of his favourite pursuits. 
Macaulay, Horace Walpole. 
4. Not easy to be done or accomplished; diffi- 
cult. 
But this swift business 
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning 
Make the prize light. Shale., Tempest, i. 2. 451. 
Uneatable (un-e'ta-bl), a. Not eatable ; not fit 
to be eaten: as, uneatable fruit. 
Big scarlet hips which are uneatable by us. 
Grant Allen, Colin Clout's Calendar, p. 119. 
uneatableness (un-e'ta-bl-nes), n. The quality 
or state of being uneatable. Wallace, Natural 
Selection, iii. 120. 
uneaten (un-e'tn), a. Not eaten; not de- 
voured ; hence, not destroyed. 
Therefore I will outswear him and all his followers, 
that this is all that 's left uneaten of my sword. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, iii. 
uneath (un-eTH'), a. [< ME. unethe, onefhe, 
< AS. uneathe, difficult, < un-, not, + edthe, easy : 
see M/i-iand eath, a.] Not easy; difficult. [Ob- 
solete or archaic.] 
Uneath it were to tell. Southey. 
uneatht (un-eTH'), adv. [< ME. unethe, uneth, 
unnethe, unneth, onefhe, onnetne, etc., < AS. - 
edthe, not easily, < un-, not, + edthe, easily: see 
eath, adv. Cf. uneaths.] Not easily; hardly; 
scarcely. 
Atte last a forster came rideng ; 
And, wete ye wele, so sorrowfull he was 
That he onnethe myglit speke to the kyng. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.)> 1. 977. 
Uneath may she endure the flinty street. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 8. 
uneathst (un-eTHz'), adv. [< ME. wnethcs, un- 
nethes; < uneath, adv., + adv. gen. -es.] Same 
as uneath. 
