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2. A musical composition adapted to the 50th
psalm.

Where only the wind signs
miserere.

3. (Arch.) A small projecting boss or
bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see
Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give
some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also
misericordia.

4. (Med.) Same as
Ileus.

Mis"er*i*corde" (?), n. [F.
miséricorde. See Misericordia.]

1. Compassion; pity; mercy. [Obs.]

2. (Anc. Armor.) Same as
Misericordia, 2.

||Mis`e*ri*cor"di*a (?), n. [L., mercy,
compassion; miser wretched + cor, cordis,
heart.]

1. (O. Law) An amercement.
Burrill.

2. (Anc. Armor.) A thin-bladed dagger;
so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound
or "mercy" stroke to a fallen adversary.


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