a. = UNDULATORY a.
1790. G. Saunders, Treat. Theatres, 11. Kircher, and most that follow him, after explaining the progress of sound to be undulative, go on comparing its properties to that of light.
1810. Belfast Monthly Mag., V. Oct., 272/2. Its little knolls forming a fine undulative appearance.
1824. G. Furman, Rural Hours, 63.
The snow in undulative wreaths did roll, | |
And Winter held the world in his control. |
1860. Worcester (citing Fletcher).
1874. Overland Monthly, XII. May, 411.
Of the incense flowers and trees, | |
And the undulative breeze. |
1904. H. Carter & P. E. Newberry, Tomb of Thoutmôsis IV, 143. They [the warp-strings] are looser in some parts than in others, to which the warp owes its undulative appearance.