a. [ad. L. *undulant-, undulans: cf. next, and Sp. undulante, F. ondulant.] Moving after the manner of waves; rising and Ialling like waves.
Hence, in recent use, undulancy, wave-like motion.
1830. Maunder, Dict.
1834. Ld. Houghton, Tour Greece, 138. Whose sweet undulant murmur the homeless mariner hearkened, Over the undulant sapphire.
1862. Sir H. Taylor, St. Clement’s Eve, II. ii. Sea-spirits … Gliding and lapsing in undulant dance.
1896. Howells, Impress. & Exp., 215. The lesser craft that plied upon the many channels of the meadows … seemed to sail upon their undulant grasses.
b. Undulant fever, Malta fever.
1897. M. L. Hughes, Medit. Fever, i. 3, note. These cases were most commonly met with during epidemics of undulant or enteric fevers.
