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In an indecorous manner.

The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.

Want of decorum; impropriety of behavior; that in behavior or manners which violates the established rules of civility, custom, or etiquette; indecorousness.

Not fit or possible to be recorded.

A lamellicorn insect.

A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.

A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.

The inspissated juice of licorice root, used as a confection and medicinal purposes. Licorice fern (Bot.), a name of several kinds of polypody which have rootstocks of a sweetish flavor. -- Licorice sugar. (Chem.) See Glycyrrhizin. -- Licorice weed (Bot.), the tropical plant Scapania aulcis. -- Mountain licorice (Bo…

See Lickerish. -- Lic"o*rous*ness, n. [Obs.] Herbert.

Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia. -- n.

A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.…

A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Prov Eng.]

A wasting away of flesh; decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.

To fail or err in attempting to correct. "Scaliger miscorrects his author." Dryden.

Same as Misericordia, 2.

An amercement. Burrill.