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.

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.

A fish; the goldsinny.

The wood of the cork oak.

Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.

A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.

A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese.

Ravenous; voracious.

To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

a bread made from corn meal.

a flour or starch prepared from the grains of corn; it is used in cooking as a thickener.

a natural family of trees including the genera Aucuba; Cornus; Corokia; Curtisia; Griselinia; and Helwingia.

An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

A cornemuse.

a corn ball.

same as corny{5}.

A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.

The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow.

a pipe{3} for smoking tobacco with a bowl made from a corncob.

a European annual (Agrostemma githago) having large trumpet-shaped reddish-purple flowers and poisonous seed; a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways; naturalized in America.

A bird (Crex crex or Crex pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

A crib for storing corn.

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Pertaining to the cornea.

The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

Same as Carnelian.

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.

Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.

To drive into a corner.

The chief ornament.

1 Having corners or angles.

With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.

An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family. A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-/-piston. A certain organ stop or register.

A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

The commission or rank of a cornet.

One who blows a cornet.