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).
Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
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.
The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality.
In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present.
A corporal's office.
The corporal, or communion cloth.
To become incorporated.
a person who purchases or attempts to purchase a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management.
In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.
A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.
The state of being embodied; bodily existence.
Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.
Materialism.
One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.
The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
In the body; in a bodily form or manner.
Corporeality; corporeity.
The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.
To embody; to form into a body.
St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.
The human body, whether living or dead.
A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
Very fat; obese.
In a corpulent manner.
A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.
An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy.
A corpuscle.
Corpuscular.
To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
Radiating to or from the same point.
To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.
A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point.
To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.
Corrosive.
To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
Capable of being corrected.
To correct.
the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.
The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.