CORINTHIAN
CORINTHIAN, adjective Pertaining to Corinth, a celebrated city of Greece; as corinthian column; corinthian order; corinthian brass. The corinthian order, in architecture, is the...
Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
Search
Find a word or entry
Current letter
C
6.176 entries
CORIVAL
CORIVAL, verb transitive To rival; to pretend to equal.
CORK
CORK, noun [G., Latin, bark, rind, shell, crust.]1. A glandiferous tree, a species of Quercus, growing in Spain and Portugal, having a thick, rough, fungous, cleft bark.2. The o...
CORK-SCREW
CORK-SCREW, noun A screw to draw corks from bottles.
CORKING-PIN
CORKING-PIN, noun A pin of a large size.
CORKY
CORKY, adjective Consisting of cork; resembling cork; made of cork; tough.
CORMORANT
CORMORANT, noun [Cormorant is supposed to be corrupted from corvus marinus, sea raven. The Welsh also call the fowl morvran, sea crow.]1. The water raven, a large fowl of the pe...
CORN
CORN, noun [G., Latin See Grain.]1. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley and maiz; a grain. In this sense, it has a plural; as, three barley corns make an inch...
CORN-CHANDLER
CORN-CHANDLER, noun [Chandler, a dealer in candles, is supposed to be from the French chandelier; but what has this word to do with corn and ship, in corn-chandler and ship-chan...
CORN-CRAKE
CORN-CRAKE, noun The crake or land rail; the corn-crow, for kraka, in Sw., and krage, in Dan., is our word crow, and the name is probably taken from its cry. The Dutch kraai, a ...
CORN-CUTTER
CORN-CUTTER, noun [corn and cut.] One who cuts corns, or indurations of the skin.
CORN-MARYGOLD
CORN-MARYGOLD, noun A genus of plants, the Chrysanthemum.
CORN-PARSLEY
CORN-PARSLEY, noun A genus of plants, the Sison.
CORN-ROCKET
CORN-ROCKET, noun A genus of plants, the Bunias.
CORN-SALLAD
CORN-SALLAD, noun A plant, a species of valeriana, whose top leaves are said to be a good sallad.
CORN-VIOLET
CORN-VIOLET, noun A species of Campanula.
CORNAGE
CORNAGE, noun [Latin, a horn.] An ancient tenure of lands, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
CORNAMUTE
CORNELIAN, CORNEMUSE, CORNAMUTEnoun A kind of rustic flute.
CORNBIND
CORNBIND, noun Climbing buck-wheat. [Local.]
CORNBLADE
CORNBLADE, noun The leaf of the maiz. Cornblades are collected and preserved as fodder, in some of the southern states of America.
CORNCLAD
CORNCLAD, adjective Covered with growing corn.
CORNEA
CORNEA, noun [Latin, a horn.] The transparent membrane in the fore-part of the eye, through which the rays of light pass; situated in the sclerotica, and considered by some as a...
CORNEL
CORNEL, CORNEL-TREE, CORNELIAN-TREE, noun [Latin, a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. Th...
CORNEL-TREE
CORNEL, CORNEL-TREE CORNELIAN-TREE, noun [Latin, a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. The...
CORNELIAN
CORNELIAN, CORNEMUSE, CORNAMUTE, noun A kind of rustic flute.
CORNELIAN-TREE
CORNEL, CORNEL-TREE, CORNELIAN-TREE noun [Latin, a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. The...
CORNEMUSE
CORNELIAN, CORNEMUSE CORNAMUTE, noun A kind of rustic flute.