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The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.

The limulus.

ation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.

To furnish (a road) with a telford pavement.

A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.

An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.

To release from cords; to loosen the cord or cords of; to unfasten or unbind; as, to uncord a package.

To deprive of the rank or position of a lord. Milton.

Deprived of the rank of a lord.

To countermand an order for. [R.]

Disorderly. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Disorderly; irregular; inordinate. [R.] -- Un*or"di*nate*ly, adv. [R.]

The central axis or cord in the tail of larval ascidians and of certain adult tunicates. [Written also urocord.]

Same as Tunicata.

Of or pertaining to the Urochorda.

See Urochord.

A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.

A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password.

Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.

A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.