Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 127
Corking pin (n.) A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Corkscrew (n.) An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
Corkscrew (a.) Shaped like a corkscrew; spiral; helical.
Corkscrew stairs, A spiral staircase around a solid newel.
Corkscrew (v. t.) To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] -- Dickens.
Corkscrew (n.) A bottle opener that pulls corks [syn: corkscrew, bottle screw].
Corkscrew (v.) Move in a spiral or zigzag course [syn: corkscrew, spiral].
Corkwing (n.) (Zool.) A fish; the goldsinny.
Corky (a.) Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.
Bind fast hiss corky arms. -- Shak.
Corky (a.) Tasting of cork.
Corky (a.) (Of wine) Tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin; "a corked port" [syn: corked, corky].
Corm (n.) (Bot.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.
Corm (n.) (Biol.) Same as Cormus, 2.
Corm (n.) Solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure.
Cormogeny (n.) (Biol.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.
Cormophylogeny (n.) (Biol.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. -- Haeckel. Cormophytes
Cormophytes (n. pl.) Alt. of Cormophyta.
Cormophyta (n. pl.) (Bot.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.
Cormorant (n.) (Zool.) 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. [Written also corvorant.]
Cormorant (n.) A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. -- B. Jonson.
Cormorant (n.) Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish [syn: cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo].
Cormorant, () (Lev. 11:17; Deut. 14:17), Heb. shalak, "plunging," or "darting down," (the Phalacrocorax carbo), ranked among the "unclean" birds; of the same family group as the pelican. It is a "plunging" bird, and is common on the coasts and the island seas of Palestine. Some think the Hebrew word should be rendered "gannet" (Sula bassana, "the solan goose"); others that it is the "tern" or "sea swallow," which also frequents the coasts of Palestine as well as the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan valley during several months of the year. But there is no reason to depart from the ordinary rendering.
In Isa. 34:11, Zeph. 2:14 (but in R.V., "pelican") the Hebrew word rendered by this name is _ka'ath_. It is translated "pelican" (q.v.) in Ps. 102:6. The word literally means the "vomiter," and the pelican is so called from its vomiting the shells and other things which it has voraciously swallowed. (See PELICAN.)
Cormoraut (a.) Ravenous; voracious.
Cormorant, devouring time. -- Shak.
Cromulent (a.) (Often Facetious.) 這個單字很特別，它來自於卡通《辛普森家庭》，是裡面的老師用來表示「正確的、正當的」意思，不過最後被《辛普森家庭》用來諷刺一個被當作真實的假象。【延伸單字】-- legitimate (a.) 正當的，合理的；-- spurious (a.) 假的；偽造的；欺騙性的 Acceptable or legitimate: People disagree on using the singular “they,” but it's perfectly cromulent as far as I'm concerned.
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.
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 (n. 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.
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.
Corneous (a.) 角質的；似角的；有角的 Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. -- Sir T. Browne.
Corneous (a.) Made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) [syn: {corneous}, {hornlike}, {horny}].
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.
Cornerback (n.) （美式橄欖球） 防守角衛；防守側後衛 A defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers.
Compare: Linebacker
Linebacker (n.) [ C ] (US) （美式橄欖球的）中後衛 A player in American football who tries to stop players from the other team from moving the ball along the field.
Cornercap (n.) The chief ornament.
Cornered (p. a.) 有角的；被逼至絕路的；corner 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Having corners or angles.
Cornered (p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
Cornered (a.) Forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal" [syn: at bay(p), cornered, trapped, treed].
Cornerstone (n.) 【建】基石；隅石；柱石；地基；【喻】基礎；柱石 The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone].
Cornerstone (n.) A stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies.
Cornerstone (n.) A stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls.
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 (n. 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
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. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Cornicular (n.) A secretary or clerk. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Corniculate (a.) Horned; having horns. -- Dr. H. More.
Corniculate (a.) (Bot.) Having processes resembling small horns.
Cornicula (n. pl. ) of Corniculum.
Corniculum (n.) (Anat.) A small hornlike part or process.
Corniferous
(a.) (Geol.)
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
Cornific (a.) Producing horns; forming horn.
Cornification (n.) Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.
Cornified (a.) (Anat.) Converted into horn; horny.
Corniform (a.) Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.
Cornigerous (a.) Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Cornin (n.) (Chem.) A bitter
principle obtained from dogwood ({Cornus
Cornin (n.) (Chem.) An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.
Corniplume (n.) (Zool.) A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.
Cornish (a.) Of or pertaining to
Cornish chough. See Chough.
Cornish engine, A single-acting pumping engine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.
Cornish (n.) The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.
Cornish (a.) Of or related to Cornwall or its people or the Cornish language.
Cornish (n.) A Celtic language spoken in Cornwall
Cornish (n.) English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters [syn: Cornish, Cornish fowl].
Cornish, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 172
Housing Units (2000): 75
Land area (2000): 0.588992 sq. miles (1.525481 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.588992 sq. miles (1.525481 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17350
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.162641 N, 97.595472 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cornish, OK
Cornish
Cornish, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000): 259
Housing Units (2000): 76
Land area (2000): 4.844497 sq. miles (12.547190 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.010031 sq. miles (0.025979 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.854528 sq. miles (12.573169 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15940
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.965668 N, 111.952636 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84308
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cornish, UT
Cornish