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.

One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.

A field where corn is or has been growing; -- in England, a field of wheat, rye, barley, or oats; in America, a field of Indian corn.

A thrashing floor.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

a resident of Nebraska; -- a nickname.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).

Having a cornice.

A little horn.

A secretary or clerk.

A small hornlike part or process.

Of or pertaining to the lowest period of the Devonian age. (See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

Producing horns; forming horn.

Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.

Converted into horn; horny.

Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.

Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals.

A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid. An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.

A performer on the cornet or horn.

A loft for corn; a granary.

A cornemuse.

An obsolete name for the cornet-/-piston.

A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.

The husk covering an ear of Indian corn.

A stalk of Indian corn.

Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold.

Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.

A cuckold maker.

Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.

A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.

An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.

A corolla.

The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.

That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous.

Having a corolla or corollas; like a corolla.

A floret in an aggregate flower.

Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.

Of or pertaining to a corolla.

The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.

A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

See Coranach.

A crown; wreath; garland.

The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.

A small bone in the foot of a horse.

the blockage of the coronary artery of the heart by a thrombus.

Having or wearing a crown.

The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points.

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.

A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.

The principal gaseous substance forming the solar corona, characterized by a green line in the coronal spectrum.

Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.

The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.

Crown.

See Corporas.

Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.

A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.