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Hence-2 A horn-shaped or conical vessel or cornutot (kor-nu'to), n. [It., < L. cornutus: see 
- " A cuckold. 
as a salad, found in grain-fields in Europe and 
rarely in America. 
corn-sawfly (korn' 
ha' 
corn 
other material, tilled or to be filled with nuts The peaking cornuto, her husband, 
or sweetmeats. 3. leap.} [NL.] A genus of 
A terebrant hy- grasses whose spikes resemble the cornucopia cornutort (kor-uu'tor), n. [< cornute, v., + 
Iv TentltredinidO!, in form. A cuckold-maker. Jordan. 
^Injures corn in Europe! Cornularia (kor-nu-la'ri-a), n [NL. (La- cornutus (kor-nu'tus), n [L, having horns: 
talk of the cereal, weakens it, and marck), < LL. cornulum, dim. of L. cornu = E. see cornute.} An ancient sophism, like the tol- 
_ /,.!.. !.. i iorn 4. _ ar j a _] The typical genus of the family lowing: What you have not lost, you nave; 
Cornulariidw. C. crassa is an example. you have not lost horns ; therefore you have 
prevents the tilling of the ears. The genus Cephiu is repre- 
sented in the United States, but none of its species there 
^^ ,..,. . 
ve precisely the same habit cornularianlk6r-nu-ia''ri-an), a. ancfw. [< Cor- horns. See etymology of' earn tine* , a~. 
n-sheller (korn'shel"er), n. A machine for "^^g + JJ^j j o . Pertaining to or having C0 rn-van (korn'vun), n. A machine 
inllino' Indian corn that is. removing tne ,, , , ,! r<,,in*.;;ri,o ,; ,,,, p/w> 
for win- 
Indian corn 
grain from the ear. ""if T.* OnfTofthe CornularOdai. corn-vfolet (korn'vl"o-let), n. See violet. 
corn-Shucking (kom'shuk''mg), n. bame as Cornularii d e (k6r*nu-la-ri'i-de), n.pl. [NL., < cornwallite (korn'wal-It), n. [< Cornwall (see 
n-htuiking. [Southern U. b.J ^ Cornularia + -kite.} ' A' family of alcypnarian Cornishl) + ^ite?.} A hydrous arsemate of cop- 
polyps, of the order Alcyoniacew, having the per resembling malachite in appearance, found 
ectoderm coriaceous and contractile, without ?- " " ^ 1 ' 
in Cornwall, England. 
sclerobase, and the individual animals con- corn-weevil (kdrn'we"vil), . The Calandra 
nected by basal buds and root-like processes, granaria, an insect very injurious to grain. See 
Calandra, 2. 
instead of forming digitate or lobate masses as 
in the Alcyoniidai. 
corn- - ,._- 
corn-snake (koru'snak), n. A popular name 
in the United States of the Scotophis guttatus, 
a large harmless serpent. Baird and Girard. 
corn-Starch (korn'starch'), 1- Starchmade 
from Indian corn. 2. A flour made from the 
starchy part of Indian corn, used for puddings, _ _ 
- -* * ^ifSS^-Su^ M ^r" K ' es - ] A -^sa^j^^iiij** 1 
Cornulites (kor-nu-li'tez), n. [< NL. (Schloth- 
* -- heim, 1820), < L. cornu, = E. horn, + Gr. /U'0of, 
characteristic of some of the old - stone '.-j A gen us of tubicolous annelids, highly 
characteristic of the Silurian formation. C. 
serpularius is a wide-ranging species, 
' u-pet), a. K LL. 
[< cori 
cornstone (korn'ston), n. [< 
stone containing calcareous concretions^very 
characteristic of i 
stone formations. 
corn-thrips (korn'thrips), . The popular name 
in England of Phkeothrips cerealium. its eggs are 
corn-worm (korn'werm), n. Same as boll-worm. 
sorny 1 (kor'ni), a. [< cori + -y 1 .} 1. ^ 
nature of corn ; furnished with grains < 
By constant Journies careful to prepare 
Her [the ant's] Stores ; and bringing home the Comt/Ear. 
Prior, Solomon, i. 
ing with the horns : said of a horned animal, 
as a bull, represented with its head lowered as 
if about to attack with the horns. 
Cornus (kor'nus), n. [L., the dogwood-tree, < 
cornu E. 7ior; in reference to the hardness 
of the wood: see cornel.] A genus of plants 
of the natural order Cornacece, consisting of 
shrubs, trees, or rarely herbs, with usually 
small white or yellowish flowers and ovoid 
drupes. There are about 25 species, mostly of the north- 
edly injurious, although asserted by some observers to feed 
on aphides. An insect indistinguishable from this species 
is found in the United States, but seems there to be con- 
fined to oats and wild grasses. 
cornu (kor'nu). n. ; pi. cornua (-a). [L., = E. 
horn : see corn?, cornel, corner, cornefi, etc., and 
horn.} 1. Horn; a horn. 2. Something re- 
sembling or likened to a horn. (a) In zool. and 
<mat., a horn-like part, as the incisor tooth of the narwhal, 
the process on the head of the horned screamer, etc. (b) 
In Diatomaceee, a horn-like projection upon a valve. Cor- 
nua are also called tubuli. (c) A horn of an altar. See 
phrases below. ((/) A decorative vessel in the shape of a i mrtt , fspeciaiij ui LUU iwov, no mi.n. c*n .-.._.,,.., v 
horn ; specifically, a chrismatory or cruet in that shape. ] aa t properties, and is used as a remedy in intermittent = 
Cornua laryngis. Same as earnieula laryngi (which see, 
under eornicidum). Cornu Ammonis. (a) In anat., the 
hippocampus major (so called from its resemblance to a 
ram's horn), a curved elongated elevation on the floor of the 
middle or descending cornu of the lateral ventricle of the 
brain. (6) Same as ammonite. Cornua of the coccyx, 
two small processes projecting upward (forward) from 
the posterior surface of the coccyx to articulate with the 
sacral cornua. Cornua of the hyoid bone, the horns 
of the hyoid bone, in man known as the greater cornu and 
lesser cornu, the former being the thyrohyal, the latter 
the ceratohyal. (See cut under skutt.) A similar relation 
of the parts is found in other mammals ; in birds, how- 
ever, the parts of the hyoid commonly called cornua are 
the thyrohyals, consisting of at least two bones on each 
side, the apohyals and ceratohyals of Macgillivray, the 
hypobranchials and ceratobranchials of Owen, or the cera- 
tobranchials and epibranchials of Parker and Cones. 
Cornua of the sacrum, or sacral cornua, the stunted 
pair of postzygapophyses of the last sacral vertebra, ar- 
ticulating with the cornua of the coccyx. Cornua Of the 
thyroid cartilage, superior and inferior, processes above 
and below at the posterior border of the thyroid cartilage 
on each side. Cornua of the ventricles of the brain, 
three prolongations, anterior, middle, and posterior, of 
the general lateral ventricular cavity, observed in well- 
formed brains, as that of man. Cornua Uteri, the horns 
of the womb. In the human species they are observable 
chiefly on section, as processes of the cavity leading into 
each Fallopian tube; but in sundry mammals they are 
very conspicuous from the outside, as a partial division of 
the uterus into two, such a uterus being called two-honied 
or bicornute. Cornu epistoll, the epistle-horn of a Chris- 
tian altar. See luirn. Cornu evangel!!, the gospel-horn 
of a Christian altar. See horn. Cornu Of the fascia 
lata, a reflection of the iliac portion of the fascia lata from 
the spine of the pubes downward and outward, forming 
the outer boundary of the saphenous opening. 
COrnual (k&r'nu-al), a. [< cornu + -al.} Per- Cornuspira (kor-nu-spi ra), n. 
taming to the cornua of the gray matter of the , .= E- horn, + spira, spire. J 
spinal cord. Anterior cornual myelitis, in pathol., 
inflammation of the anterior cornua of the gray matter of 
the spinal cord. Also called anterior poliomyelitis. 
cornubianite (k6r-nu'bi-an-it), . [< Cormtbia, 
Latinized name of Cornwall (see Cornish^-), + 
-ite?.} The name given by Boase to a hard cornute (k6r-nuf), o. [= Sp. cornudo = Pg. cor- 
dark-bluish and purple rock, sometimes of a uni- nudo, cornuto = It. cornuto, < L. cornutus, < cornu 
form color, but occasionally with dark stripes, 
spots, or patches, on a light-blue base, and com- 
posed of the same ingredients as granite. It is 
a form of contact-metamorphism of gneiss or granite, de- 
veloped at the junction of those rocks with the slates, 
and resembling to a certain extent, both in nature and 
origin, the " capel " of the Cornish miner. See capel. 
cornucopia (k6r-nu-ko'pi-a), n. [A LL. accom., 
as a single word, of L. cornu copia!, lit. horn of 
Dogwood (Cornus Jtorida}. 
fevers, etc. The flowering dogwoods, C. florida of the At- 
lantic States and C. NuttaUii on the Pacific coast, are 
small trees and very ornamental, having the small cyme 
surrounded by a large and conspicuous involucre of four 
white bracts. The wood is very hard, close-grained, and 
tough, and is used as a substitute for boxwood for mak- 
ing bobbins and shuttles for weaving, and also in cabinet- 
work. Some of the species, as C. Canadenxie (the bunch- 
berry) and C. Suecica, are dwarfed and herbaceous, with 
similar showy flowers followed by clusters of red berries. 
[NL., < L. cor- 
., , ._.._,_,_-... Agenusofim- 
perforate foraminifers, of the family Miliolida;. 
C. planorbis is an example. 
2. Producing corn ; abounding with corn. 
Tares in the mantle of a cornu ground. 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, iv. 
" 3. Containing corn. 
They lodge in habitations not their own, 
By their high crops and corny gizzards known. 
Dryden. 
4. Produced from corn; tasting strongly of 
corn or malt. 
Now have I dronke a draughte of corny ale. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Pardoner's Tale, 1. 170. 
5. Intoxicated ; tipsy; corned. [Colloq. or vul- 
gar.] 
[Rare in all uses.] 
2 (kor'ni), a. [< L. corneus, horny, < cornu 
horn. Cf. corneous.} Horny ; corneous ; 
strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn. 
Upstood the corny reed 
Embattl'd in her field. Hilton, f. L., vii. 321. 
coro (ko'ro), n. [Brazilian.] A fish of the fam- 
ily Htemulonidw, Conodon nobilis, marked by 8 
cross bands, inhabiting the Caribbean sea and 
Brazilian coast. 
coroclisis (ko-ro-kli'sis), n. [NL.] Same as 
coreclisis. 
corocore (kor'o-kor), . [Native name.] Aboat 
of varying form used in the Malay archipelago. 
That used in Celebes is propelled by oars, and has a cu- 
rious apparatus projecting beyond the gunwale, and also 
beyond the stern, on which a second row of rowers is 
placed. It is often manned with sixty men. Others, as 
those used in the Moluccas, are masted vessels, broad, with 
narrow extremities, from 50 to 65 feet long, and covered 
throughout about four fifths of their length with a sort of 
roof or shed of matting. 
COrody (kor'o-di), n. ; pi. corodies (-diz). [Also 
written corrody ; < ML. corrodium, corredium, 
corredum, conredium, conredum, corody, provi- 
sion, furniture, equipment ; OF. conroi, > ult. E. 
curry 1 , q. v.] 1. Formerly, in England, a right 
of sustenance, or of receiving certain allot- 
ments of victual and provision for one's main- 
tenance, in virtue of the ownership of some 
corporeal hereditament; specifically, such a 
right due from an abbey or a monastery to the 
king or his grantee. 
Most of the houses [religious] had been founded by their 
forefathers ; in most of them they had corrodies and other 
vested interests. R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., v. 
2. The sustenance or allotment so received. 
The Anglicized form of co- 
plenty ;"corM =E. horn; copia;, gen. of copia, cornutet (kor-nuf), v. t. ~ [< cornute, a.} To 
plenty: see Jiorn and copy.} 1. In classical put horns upon that is, to make a cuckold. 
But why does he not name others 1 . . . As if the horn 
grew on nobody's head but mine. ... I hope he cannot 
say . . . that my being cornutrd has raised the price of 
antiq., the horn of plenty (which see, under 
horn). 
Achelous in great pain and fright, to redeem his horn, 
presents Hercules with the cornu-copia. 
corol (kor'ol), n. 
If the tendency of growth is to produce a spiral, it re- rotta. 
uits in the beautif ill Cornuspira, which greatly resembles corolla (k6-TOr|),. [A ML. use Ot L. corolla, 
the mollusc planorbis. Stand. Nat. Hut., I. 15. a garland, a little crown, dim. of corona, a 
crown: see co- 
rona, crown.'] 
In lot., the en- 
velop of a flow- 
er, within the 
calyx and im- 
mediately sur- 
rounding the 
stamens and 
pistil, usually 
of delicate tex- 
ture and of 
some other col- 
or than green, 
and forming the 
most conspicu- 
ous part of the 
= E. horn.} 1. Furnished with horns ; horned. 
2. In bot., furnished with a horn-like pro- 
cess or spur. 3. Taking the shape of a horn: 
as, cornute locks (thick locks of hair tapering 
to a point). 
Also cornuted. 
Cornute larva, a larva having a horn-like appendage 
over the anal extremity. Cornute thorax or head, in 
'ntint/., a thorax or head bearing horn-like processes. 
post-horns. Sir R. L' Estrange, tr. of Quevedo's Visions. 
Bacon, Political Fables, ix. cornuted (k6r-nu'ted), a. Same as cornute. 
