Corking pin () A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold.
Corkscrew (n.) An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
Corkscrew (v. t.) To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd.
Corkwing (n.) A fish; the goldsinny.
Corky (a.) Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.
Corky (a.) Tasting of cork.
Corm (n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.
Corm (n.) Same as Cormus, 2.
Cormogeny (n.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.
Cormophylogeny (n.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals.
Cormophytes (n. pl.) Alt. of Cormophyta
Cormophyta (n. pl.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.
Cormorant (n.) 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.
Cormorant (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant.
Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.
Cormus (n.) See Corm.
Cormus (n.) A vegetable or animal made up of a number of individuals, such as, for example, would be formed by a process of budding from a parent stalk wherre the buds remain attached.
Corn (n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
Corn (n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
Corn (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
Corn (n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.
Corn (n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
Corned (imp. & p. p.) of Corn
Corning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corn
Corn (v. t.) 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.
Corn (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
Corn (v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
Corn (v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
Cornage (n.) Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
Cornamute (n.) A cornemuse.
Cornbind (n.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.
Corncob (n.) The cob or axis on which the kernels of Indian corn grow.
Corncrake (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.
Corncrib (n.) A crib for storing corn.
Corncutter (n.) A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.
Corncutter (n.) An implement consisting of a long blade, attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.
Corndodger (n.) A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.
Corneas (pl. ) of Cornea
Cornea (n.) The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Corneal (a.) Pertaining to the cornea.
Cornel (n.) The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.
Cornel (n.) Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf cornel, or bunchberry.
Cornelian (n.) Same as Carnelian.
Cornemuse (n.) A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.
Corneocalcareous (a.) Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.
Corneocalcareous (a.) Horny on one side and calcareous on the other.
Corneouss (a.) Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard.
Corner (n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
Corner (n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
Corner (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
Corner (n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.
Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
Cornered (imp. & p. p.) of Corner
Cornering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corner
Corner (v. t.) To drive into a corner.
Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
Corner (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Cornercap (n.) The chief ornament.
Cornered (p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles.
Cornered (p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
Cornerwise (adv.) With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
Cornet (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
Cornet (n.) 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-a-piston.
Cornet (n.) A certain organ stop or register.
Cornet (n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.
Cornet (n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
Cornet (n.) The standard of such a troop.
Cornet (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.
Cornet (n.) A headdress
Cornet (n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.
Cornet (n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.
Cornet (n.) See Coronet, 2.
Cornets-a-piston (pl. ) of Cornet-a-piston
Cornet-a-piston (n.) A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
Cornetcy (n.) The commission or rank of a cornet.
Corneter (n.) One who blows a cornet.
Corneule (n.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.
Cornfield (n.) 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.
Cornfloor (n.) A thrashing floor.
Cornflower (n.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.
Cornic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).
Cornice (n.) 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.
Corniced (a.) Having a cornice.
Cornicle (n.) A little horn.
Cornicular (n.) A secretary or clerk.
Cor/niculate (a.) Horned; having horns.
Cor/niculate (a.) Having processes resembling small horns.
Cornicula (pl. ) of Corniculum
Corniculum (n.) A small hornlike part or process.
Corniferous (a.) 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.
Cornific (a.) Producing horns; forming horn.
Cornification (n.) Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.
Cornified (a.) Converted into horn; horny.
Corniform (a.) Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.
Cornigerous (a.) Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals.
Cornin (n.) A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.
Cornin (n.) An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.
Corniplume (n.) A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
Cornish (a.) Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.