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A lyre with seven chords.

One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.

A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.

Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.

A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture. [R.]

A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.

An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.

To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.

Not accordant; discordant.

Not coördinate.

Want of coördination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoördination of muscular movement (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire. Jer. Taylor.

mited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. "Inordinate desires." Milton. "Inordinate vanity." Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- In*or"di*nate*ness, n.

Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy. [Obs.] South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.

Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous

The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

Not fit or possible to be recorded.

A pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists. [Obs.] Halliwell.

See Kurd.