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

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.

The chough.

To discard. [Obs.] You have cast those by, decarded them. J. Fletcher.

To depose from the rank of cardinal.

Having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

An order of Brachiopoda; the Lyopomata. See Brachiopoda.

Pertaining to the endocardium.

Inflammation of the endocardium.

The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.

Of or relating to the epicardium.

That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

A lateral half of the heart, either the right or left. B. G. Wilder.

is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]

Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia. -- n.

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

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