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To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat. My ships have all miscarried. Shak. The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried. Shak.

Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.

Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians. -- n.

A monocarpic plant.

Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

(Elec. Railroads) Any car containing motors for propulsion. [U. S.]

Many-keeled.

The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor. [Written also muscadine.]

A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

Having the form of a brush.

A solid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison.

Inflammation of the myocardium.

The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.

A pale red color, with a cast of orange. Ure.

The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.

Brazil wood.

See Nitromethane.

A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.

A kind of small simple wind instrument.