MISERICORD
- An apartment in a monastery in which some relaxations of the monastic rule are permitted
- A small dagger used to deliver a death stroke to a wounded enemy
- A ledge projecting from the underside of a hinged seat in a choir stall that, when the seat is turned up, gives support to someone standing
- a bracket on a turn-up seat in a choirstall, allowing the user some support when standing also MISERICORDE [n -S]