Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 126
Cordal (n.) Same as Cordelle.
Cordate (a.) (Bot.) Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf.
Cordate (a.) (Of a leaf) Shaped like a heart [syn: cordate, heart-shaped, cordiform].
Cordately (adv.) In a cordate form.
Corded (a.) Bound or fastened with cords.
Corded (a.) Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.
Corded (a.) Made of cords. [Obs.] "A corded ladder." -- Shak.
Corded (a.) Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface.
Corded (a.) (Her.) Bound about, or wound, with cords.
Cordelier (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.
Cordelier
(n.) (Fr.
Hist.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution,
of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier
convent in
Cordeling (a.) Twisting.
Cordelle (n.) A twisted cord; a tassel. -- Halliwell.
Cordial (a.) Proceeding from the heart. [Obs.]
A rib with cordial spirits warm. -- Milton.
Cordial (a.) Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.
He . . . with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamored. -- Milton.
Cordial (a.) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.
Behold this cordial julep here That flames and dances in his crystal bounds. -- Milton.
Syn: Hearty; sincere; heartfelt; warm; affectionate; cheering; invigorating. See Hearty.
Cordial (a.) Diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: affable, amiable, cordial, genial].
Cordial (a.) Politely warm and friendly; "a cordial handshake".
Cordial (a.) Sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste".
Cordial (n.) Strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal [syn: liqueur, cordial].
Cordial (n.) Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.
Charms to my sight, and cordials to my mind. -- Dryden.
Cordial (n.) (Med) Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.
Cordial (n.) (Com.) Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.
Cordial (a.) Diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: affable, amiable, cordial, genial].
Cordial (a.) Politely warm and friendly; "a cordial handshake".
Cordial (a.) Sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste".
Cordial (n.) Strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal [syn: liqueur, cordial].
Cordialities (n. pl. ) Of Cordiality.
Cordiality (n.) 誠實，鄭重，懇摯 Relation to the heart. [Obs.]
That the ancients had any respect of cordiality or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted. -- Sir T.
Browne.
Cordiality (n.) Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness. -- Motley.
Cordiality (n.) A cordial disposition [syn: {amity}, {cordiality}].
Cordialize (v. t.) To make into a cordial.
Cordialize (v. t.) To render cordial; to reconcile.
Cordialize (v. i.) To grow cordial; to feel or express cordiality. [R.]
Cordially (adv.) In a cordial manner. -- Dr. H. More.
Cordialness (n.) Cordiality. -- Cotgrave.
Cordierite (n.) (Min.) See Iolite.
Cordiform (a.) Heart-shaped. -- Gray.
Cordillera (n.) (Geol.) A mountain ridge or chain.
Note: Cordillera is sometimes applied, in geology, to the system of mountain chains near the border of a continent; thus, the western cordillera of North America in the United States includes the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Coast and Cascade ranges.
Cordiner (n.) A cordwainer. [Obs.]
Cordon (n.) 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.
Cordon (n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar. -- Sir E. Sandys.
Cordon (n.) (Fort.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
Cordon (n.) (Mil.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
Cordon
(n.) A
rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of
state.
Cordon sanitaire > Cordon sanitaire [F., sanitary cordon],
A line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease,
to cut off communication, and thus prevent the disease from spreading.
Also used figuratively, of a group of neutral states that forms a barrier
between two hostile states.
Cordon (n.) A series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing.
Cordon (n.) Cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank.
Cordon (n.) Adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord.
Cordonnet (n.) Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. --McElrath.
Cordovan (n.) Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.
Cordovan (n.) A fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain.
Corduroy (n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.
Corduroy (n.) pl. Trousers or breeches of corduroy.
Corduroy
road, A roadway
formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called
from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]
Corduroy (v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side. "Roads
were corduroyed." -- Gen. W. T. Sherman.
Corduroy (n.) A cut pile fabric with vertical ribs; usually made of cotton [syn: cord, corduroy].
Corduroy (n.) A road made of logs laid crosswise.
Corduroy (v.) Build (a road) from logs laid side by side.
Cordwain (n.) 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.
Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. -- Spenser.
Cordwainer (n.) A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]
Cor, (n.) A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also core.]
Core (n.) A body of
individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.]
He was in a core of people. -- Bacon.
Core (n.) (Mining.) A miner's underground working time or shift. -- Raymond.
Note: The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores.
Core (n.) A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. [Written also core.]
Core (n.) The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. -- Byron.
Core (n.) The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Core (n.) The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject; -- also used attributively, as the core curriculum at a college.
Core (n.) (Founding) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.
Core (n.) A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Core (n.) (Anat.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
Core (n.) (Elec.) A mass of iron or other ferrous metal, forming the central part of an electromagnet, such as those upon which the conductor of an armature, a transformer, or an induction coil is wound.
Note: The presence of the iron intensifies the magnetic field created by a a current passing through the windings.
Core (n.) (Mining) A sample of earth or rock extracted from underground by a drilling device in such a manner that the layers of rock are preserved in the same order as they exist underground; as, to drill a core; to extract a core.
The sample is typically removed with a rotating drill bit having a hollow center, and is thus shaped like a cylinder.
Core (n.) (Computers) The main working memory of a digital computer system, which typically retains the program code being executed as well as the data structures that are manipulated by the program. Contrasted to ROM and data storage device.
Note: The term was applied originally to the main memory, consisting of small ferromagnetic rings, that were used to store data in older computers, where each ring representing one bit of information by virtue of its state of magnetization. They were superseded by electronic data storage devices.
Syn: core memory, random access memory, RAM
Core (n.) (Geol.) The central part of the earth, believed to be a sphere with a radius of about 2100 miles, and composed primarily of molten iron with some nickel. It is distinguished from the crust and mantle.
Core (n.) (Engineering) the central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.
Core box (Founding), A box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded.
Core print (Founding), A projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.
Core dump See core dump in the vocabulary.
Core (n.) A small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" [syn: core, nucleus, core group].
Core (n.) The center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core".
Core (n.) The central part of the Earth.
Core (n.) The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty].
Core (n.) A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill.
Core (n.) An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE].
Core (n.) The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist].
Core (n.) (Computer science) A tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core].
Core (n.) The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place.
Core (n.) A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil.
Core (v.) Remove the core or center from; "core an apple".
Core (n.) Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them.
Some derived idioms are quite current; in core, for example, means ?in memory? (as opposed to ?on disk?), and both core dump and the core image or core file produced by one are terms in favor. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store.
Core, () Main memory or RAM. This term dates from the days of ferrite core memory and, like the technology, is now archaic.
Some derived idioms outlived the hardware: for example, "in core" (meaning paged in), core dump, "core image", "core file". Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store. [{Jargon File] (2009-11-06)
Core, () An integrated circuit design, usually for a microprocessor, which includes only the CPU and which is intended to be incorporated on a chiip with other circuits such as cache, memory management unit, I/O ports and timers. The trend in 2009 is to have multiple cores per chip.
The ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 are early examples, the Intel Core i9 more recent.
Core, () A varient on kernel as used to describe features built into a language as opposed to those provided by libraries. (2009-11-06)
Cord (imp. & p. p.) of Core.
Coring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Core.
Core (v. t.) To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
Core (v. t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
Co-regent (n.) A joint regent or ruler.
Co-relation (n.) Corresponding relation. coreligionist
Co-religionist (n.) One of the same religion with another.
Coreopsis (n.) (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.
Coreopsis (n.) Any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America [syn: coreopsis, tickseed, tickweed, tick-weed].
Corer (n.) That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.
Corer (n.) A device for removing the core from apples.
Co-respondent (n.) (Law) One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.
Co-respondent (n.) The codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding [syn: corespondent, co-respondent].
Corves (n. pl. ) of Corf.
Corf (n.) A basket.
Corf (n.) (Mining) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
Corf (n.) (Mining) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines. Corfiote
Corfiote (n.) Alt. of Corfute.
Corfute (n.) A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
Coriaceous (a.) Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.
Coriaceous (a.) (Bot.) Stiff, like leather or parchment.
Coriaceous (a.) Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable [syn: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery].
Coriander (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Coriander (n.) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley [syn: coriander, coriander plant, Chinese parsley, cilantro, Coriandrum sativum].
Coriander (n.) Dried coriander seeds used whole or ground [syn: coriander, coriander seed].
Coriander (n.) Parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish [syn: coriander, Chinese parsley, cilantro].
Coriander, () Heb. gad, (Ex. 16:31; Num. 11:7), seed to which the manna is likened in its form and colour. It is the Coriandrum sativum of botanists, an umbelliferous annual plant with a round stalk, about two feet high. It is widely cultivated in Eastern countries and in the south of Europe for the sake of its seeds, which are in the form of a little ball of the size of a peppercorn. They are used medicinally and as a spice. The Greek name of this plant is korion or koriannon, whence the name "coriander".
Coridine (n.) 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. [Written also corindine.]
Corindon (n.) (Min.) See Corrundum.
Compare: Gazelle
Gazelle (n.) (Zool.) One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes. [Written also gazel.]
Note: The common species of Northern Africa ({Gazella dorcas); the Arabian gazelle, or ariel ({G. Arabica}); the mohr of West Africa ({G. mohr); the Indian ({G. Bennetti); the ahu or Persian ({G. subgutturosa}); and the springbok or tsebe ({G. euchore) of South Africa, are the best known.
Corinne (n.) (Zool.) The common gazelle ({Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. [Written also korin.]
Corinne, UT -- U.S. city in Utah
Population (2000): 621
Housing Units (2000): 208
Land area (2000): 3.580943 sq. miles (9.274600 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.077076 sq. miles (0.199625 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.658019 sq. miles (9.474225 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15830
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.548575 N, 112.113752 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84307
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corinne, UT
Corinne
Compare: Korinthos
Korinthos (prop. n.) [Greek.] A city in Greece, called Corinth in English; the modern city is near the site of the ancient city that was 2nd only to Athens in size and power in ancient Greece.
Syn: Corinth.
Corinth (n.) A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.
Corinth (n.) A small fruit; a currant. [Obs.] -- Broome.
Corinth (n.) The modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens [syn: Corinth, Korinthos].
Corinth, () A Grecian city, on the isthmus which joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. It is about 48 miles west of Athens. The ancient city was destroyed by the Romans (B.C. 146), and that mentioned in the New Testament was quite a new city, having been rebuilt about a century afterwards and peopled by a colony of freedmen from Rome. It became under the Romans the seat of government for Southern Greece or Achaia (Acts 18:12-16). It was noted for its wealth, and for the luxurious and immoral and vicious habits of the people. It had a large mixed population of Romans, Greeks, and Jews. When Paul first visited the city (A.D. 51 or 52), Gallio, the brother of Seneca, was proconsul. Here Paul resided for eighteen months (18:1-18). Here he first became aquainted with Aquila and Priscilla, and soon after his departure Apollos came to it from Ephesus. After an interval he visited it a second time, and remained for three months (20:3). During this second visit his Epistle to the Romans was written (probably A.D. 55). Although there were many Jewish converts at Corinth, yet the Gentile element prevailed in the church there. Some have argued from 2 Cor. 12:14; 13:1, that Paul visited Corinth a third time (i.e., that on some unrecorded occasion he visited the city between what are usually called the first and second visits). But the passages referred to only indicate Paul's intention to visit Corinth (comp. 1 Cor. 16:5, where the Greek present tense denotes an intention), an intention which was in some way frustrated. We can hardly suppose that such a visit could have been made by the apostle without more distinct reference to it.
Corinth, () Which is satisfied; ornament; beauty.
Corinth, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 65
Housing Units (2000): 29
Land area (2000): 3.121478 sq. miles (8.084591 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.132703 sq. miles (0.343700 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.254181 sq. miles (8.428291 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15310
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.057769 N, 93.431629 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note:
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corinth, AR
Corinth
Corinth, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 2474
Housing Units (2000): 1144
Land area (2000): 1.067012 sq. miles (2.763549 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.044782 sq. miles (0.115986 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.111794 sq. miles (2.879535 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18212
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.243750 N, 73.828944 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12822
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corinth, NY
Corinth
Corinth, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 213
Housing Units (2000): 88
Land area (2000): 0.905452 sq. miles (2.345109 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.905452 sq. miles (2.345109 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19672
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.229552 N, 84.942101 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corinth, GA
Corinth
Corinth, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 181
Housing Units (2000): 87
Land area (2000): 0.356512 sq. miles (0.923362 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002446 sq. miles (0.006334 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.358958 sq. miles (0.929696 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17434
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.496042 N, 84.562131 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 41010
Note:
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corinth, KY
Corinth
Corinth, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 11325
Housing Units (2000): 4100
Land area (2000): 7.857695 sq. miles (20.351337 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.045463 sq. miles (0.117749 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.903158 sq. miles (20.469086 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16696
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.143952 N, 97.072194 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Corinth, TX
Corinth
Corinth, MS -- U.S. city in Mississippi
Population (2000): 14054
Housing Units (2000): 7058
Land area (2000): 30.453989 sq. miles (78.875466 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.130052 sq. miles (0.336833 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 30.584041 sq. miles (79.212299 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15700
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.937228 N, 88.515261 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Corinth, MS
Corinth
Corinthiac (a.) Pertaining to Corinth.
Corinthian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Corinth.
Corinthian (n.) A gay, licentious person. [Obs.]
Corinthian (n.) A man of fashion given to pleasuring or sport; a fashionable man about town; esp., a man of means who drives his own horse, sails his own yacht, or the like.
Corinthian (a.) Of or relating to Corinth.
Corinthian (a.) (Arch.) Of or pertaining to the Corinthian order of architecture, invented by the Greeks, but more commonly used by the Romans.
This is the lightest and most ornamental of the three orders used by the Greeks. -- Parker.
Corinthian (a.) Debauched in character or practice; impure. -- Milton.
Corinthian (a.) Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)
Corinthian (a.) Or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture.
Corinthian (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants.
Corinthian (n.) A man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure [syn: playboy, man-about-town, Corinthian].
Corinthian (n.) A resident of Corinth.
I Corinthians (n.) A New Testament book containing the first epistle from Saint Paul to the church at Corinth [syn: First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, First Epistle to the Corinthians, I Corinthians].
2 Corinthians (n.) 新約格林多後書 Is the second chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Timothy (2 Corinthians 1:1) in Macedonia in 55 - 56 CE. [1]
Corium (n.) Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I. -- Fosbroke.
Corium (n.) (Anat.) Same as Dermis.
Corium (n.) (Anat.) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
Compare: Dermis
Dermis, (n.) [NL. See Derm.] (Anat.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.
Corium (n.) The deep vascular inner layer of the skin [syn: dermis, corium, derma].
Corival (n.) A rival; a corrival.
Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal. -- Shak. Corivalry
Corivalry (n.) Alt. of Corivalship.
Corivalship (n.) Joint rivalry.
Cork (n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
Cork (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
Cork (n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
Note: Cork is sometimes used wrongly for calk, calker; calkin, a sharp piece of iron on the shoe of a horse or ox.
Cork jackets, A jacket having thin pieces of cork inclosed within canvas, and used to aid in swimming.
Cork tree (Bot.), The species of oak ({Quercus Suber"> Cork tree (Bot.), The species of oak ({Quercus Suber of Southern Europe) whose bark furnishes the cork of commerce.
Corked (imp. & p. p.) of Cork.
Corking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cork.
Cork (v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
Cork (v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Tread on corked stilts a prisoner's pace. -- Bp. Hall.
Note: To cork is sometimes used erroneously for to calk, to furnish the shoe of a horse or ox with sharp points, and also in the meaning of cutting with a calk.
Cork (n.) Outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
Cork (n.) (Botany) Outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells [syn: phellem, cork].
Cork (n.) A port city in southern Ireland.
Cork (n.) The plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle) [syn: cork, bottle cork].
Cork (n.) A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line [syn: bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat].
Cork (v.) Close a bottle with a cork [syn: cork, cork up] [ant: uncork].
Cork (v.) Stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter".
Corkage (n.) The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.
Corkage (n.) A charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises.
Corked (a.) Having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.
Corked (a.) (Of wine) Tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port" [syn: corked, corky].
Cork fossil () (Min.) A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
Corkiness (n.) The quality of being corky.