an uneven surface
111Keith Miller in the 1946-47 Australian cricket season — Miller had only been back in the country a week when he faced Wally Hammond’s touring Englishmen in a tour match for Victoria. His fielding and batting were rusty after the long layoff and the media constantly probed him as to whether he was… …
112asperate — adj. [L. asperare, to roughen] Referring to having a rough and uneven surface …
113bumpy — bumpily, adv. bumpiness, n. /bum pee/, adj., bumpier, bumpiest. 1. of uneven surface; full of bumps: a bumpy road. 2. full of jolts: a bumpy ride. 3. causing jolts: Bumpy air shook the airplane. 4. having many difficulties or failures; full of… …
114Eritrea — Eritrean, adj., n. /er i tree euh/; It. /e rddee trdde ah/, n. a republic in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: Italian colony 1890 1941; province of Ethiopia 1962 93; independent since 1993. 3,589,687; 47,076 sq. mi. (121,927 sq. km). Cap.: Asmara. * *… …
115Giotto — /jot oh/; It. /jawt taw/, n. (Giotto di Bondone) 1266? 1337, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect. * * * ▪ European space program European space probe that came within 596 km (370 miles) of the nucleus of Halley s Comet on March 13, 1986 …
116hubbly — /hub lee/, adj. of uneven surface; rough: hubbly ice; a hubbly road. [1865 70, Amer.; perh. HUB (in the sense of protuberance) + LY; c. D hobbelig rugged] * * * …
117tripod — /truy pod/, n. 1. a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs. 2. a three legged stand or support, as for a camera or telescope. 3. the oracular seat of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi. [1595 1605; < L tripod (s. of tripus) < Gk tripod (s.… …
118up-and-down — up and downness, n. /up euhn down /, adj. 1. moving alternately up and down: the up and down swing of levers; an up and down tune. 2. having an uneven surface: up and down countryside. 3. changeable: up and down luck. 4. perpendicular or nearly… …
119Zoigê Marsh — ▪ marsh, China Chinese (Pinyin) Ruo ergai Zhaoze or (Wade Giles romanization) Jo erh kai Chao tse , also called Songpan Grasslands large marsh lying mostly in northern Sichuan province, west central China. It occupies about 1,000… …
120lippage — noun An uneven surface of a floor that occurs when stone or tiles are not laid to a uniform level …
