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An amercement. Burrill.

A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm. -- Neu`ro*cor"dal, a.

Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf.

The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.

Same as Precordial.

Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. [Obs.] "I it you record." Chaucer.

Remembrance. [Obs.]

Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. [Obs.] Shak.

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

The office of a recorder.

Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

A cord by which the gas bag of a balloon may be ripped open for a limited distance to release the gas quickly and so cause immediate descent.

= Rip cord.

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

In the Eucharist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by "lifting up the heart" to God.

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

See Urochord.

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

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.