Decachordon :: Decachordon (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.

Disanchor :: Disanchor (v. t. & i.) To raise the anchor of, as a ship; to weigh anchor..

Enchorial :: Enchorial (a.) Alt. of Enchori.

Enchoric :: Enchoric (a.) Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic..

Epichordal :: Epichordal (a.) Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it..

Epichorial :: Epichorial (a.) In or of the country.

Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism.

Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs..

Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless..

Harpsichord :: Harpsichord (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano..

Heptachord :: Heptachord (n.) A system of seven sounds.

Heptachord :: Heptachord (n.) A lyre with seven chords.

Heptachord :: Heptachord (n.) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

Hexachord :: Hexachord (n.) A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones..

Ichor :: Ichor (n.) An ethereal fluid that supplied the place of blood in the veins of the gods.

Ichor :: Ichor (n.) A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc..

Ichorhaemia :: Ichorhaemia (n.) Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.

Ichorous :: Ichorous (a.) Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.

Manichord :: Manichord () Alt. of Manichordo.

Manichordon :: Manichordon () The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

Monochord :: Monochord (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them..

Neurochord :: Neurochord (a.) Alt. of Neurochorda.

Neurochordal :: Neurochordal (a.) See Neurocord.

Notochord :: Notochord (n.) An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm..

Notochordal :: Notochordal (a.) Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.

Octachord :: Octachord (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

Octochord :: Octochord (n.) See Octachord.

Parachordal :: Parachordal (a.) Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord.

Parachordal :: Parachordal (n.) A parachordal cartilage.

Pentachord :: Pentachord (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.

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