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A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.
The wild poppy, or red corn rose.
To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.
Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.
In a coquettish manner.
Lit., a shell; A shell or shell-like dish or mold in which viands are served. The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc. A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, and named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.
A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.
A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer.
The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa.
an East Indian cereal grass (Eleusine coracana) whose seeds yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
the type genus of the Coraciidae.
a family of birds comprising the rollers.
an order of birds including the rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee-eaters; todies.
A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Tibet and in Egypt.
The coracoid bone or process.
See Courage
Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk. Corah silk.
same as coracan.
The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
Same as Corallian.
a North American deciduous shrub (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits.
Having coral; covered with coral.
Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.
Containing or producing coral.
resembling coral in form.
Same as Anthozoa.
producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous.
Producing coral; coralliferous.
A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.
A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
A fossil coralline.
A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.
Having the form of coral; branching like coral.
resembling coral; coralloid.
a genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; it is widely distributed in temperate regions.
The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.
a European bittercress (Dentaria bulbifera) having a knotted white rootstock.
an East Indian tree (Adenanthera pavonina) with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental.
A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.
A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion.
A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.
An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow.
Crooked.
A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel.
To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.
Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.
One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.
The raven.
The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.
The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.
To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.
an order of extinct plants having tall arborescent trunks comparable to or more advanced than cycads; known from the Pennsylvanian; probably extinct since the Mesozoic.
a genus of tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; they were structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers.
Same as Cordelle.
Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.
In a cordate form.
Bound or fastened with cords.
A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.
Twisting.
A twisted cord; a tassel.
Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.
Relation to the heart.
To grow cordial; to feel or express cordiality.
In a cordial manner.
Cordiality.
See Iolite.
Heart-shaped.
A mountain ridge or chain.
A cordwainer.
A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.
operating without a wire connection to the companion communicating unit; -- of telephones and other devices using e.g. radio or infrared signals to allow communication between devices without a direct wire link; as, cordless telephones have a very restricted range compared with cellular phones.
The monetary unit of Nicaragua, equivalent to the United States gold dollar. It is divided into 100 centavos.
A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc.
Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.
trousers made of corduroy cloth; corduroys.
To form of logs laid side by side.
A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.
A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker.
Of, or like, cord; having cords or cordlike parts.
a small family of spiny ovoviviparous African lizards.
a genus of Asiatic and Pacific trees or shrubs remarkable for the fact that fragments of the trunk will regrow to form whole plants.
the type genus of the Cordylidae; they are spiny lizards somewhat resembling tiny crocodiles.
To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
An complete and exact copy of the contents of a computer core{9}, usually produced as a file when some serious error occurs in the execution of a computer program, and used for debugging the program which produced the error.
a natural family of soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae.
the type genus of the Coregonidae; whitefishes.
a true bug.
a natural family containing the squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs.
same as correlate.
A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. Coreopsis tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.
A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil.
That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.
A basket.
A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a foxlike head.
Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.
An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.
A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type.
See Corrundum.
The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle.
A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.
Pertaining to Corinth.
A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.
To rival; to pretend to equal.
Joint rivalry.
To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.
having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.
The quality of being corky.
shaped like a corkscrew; spiral; helical.
To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd.
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