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idicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

A librarian. [Obs.] Evelin.

Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.

A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal carbonates; an acid carbonate; -- sometimes called supercarbonate.

Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.]

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

tions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative. Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen.

A litter on which a person may be carried. [Obs.] Coigrave.

In French games, a double pair royal.

nciple or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. The legal brocard, "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," is a rule not more applicable to other witness than to consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.

Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation.

A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. Gray.

consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.

Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen. Lyell.

Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.