brocades hell (brokad shel)

A name given to Conus geographic us, one of the cone-shells, 690 or Conide: so called from the peculiar coloration. brocage, n. See brokage. brocard (brok'ärd), n. [OF. brocard, a maxim (in mod. F. a taunt, jeer, raillery), ML. brocard i cum, so called, it is said, from Brocard, prop. Burchhard or Burkard, bishop of Worms (died 1025), who published a collection of ecclesiastical canons, "Regulæ Ecclesiasticæ," also known as Brocardica or Brocardicorum opus.] 1. A law maxim founded on inveterate custom, or borrowed from the Roman law, and accounted part of the common law. Hence-2. An elementary principle or maxim; a short proverbial rule; a canon. The legal brocard , "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," is a rule not more applicable to other witne es than to consciousne . Sir W. Hamilton . The scholastic brocard [Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu] is the fundamental article in the creed of that school of philosophers who are called "the sensualists." Ferrier , Inst. of Metaphysics, p. 261. brocardic (brō-kär'dik), n. Same as brocard. I make use of all the brocardics, or rules of interpreters; that is, not only what is established regularly, in law, but what is concluded wise and reasonable by the best interpreters. Jer. Taylor, Pref. to Duct. Dub.