COR 
The principal trade is tanning leather: nine miles north- 
north-.weft of Melun, and fifteen fouth of Paris. 
CORBEIL'LES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Loipet, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
of Montargis : eight miles north-weft of Montargis. 
COR^BEL, or CORB::iL,y. in architecture, the repre- 
fentation of a bafleet, fometimes placed oi\the heads of 
the caryatides. A fliort piece of timber flicking out fix 
or eight inches from a wall, fometimes placed for ftreng.th 
under the fetnigirders of a platform. In fortification, 
little bafkets about a foot and a half high, eight inches 
broad at the bottom, and twelve at the top ; which, 
being filled with earth, are fet againft one another on 
the parapet, or elfewhere, leaving certain port-holes, 
from whence to fire under cover upon the enemy. 
COR'BEL-STONES,y inmafonry, are ftones wherein 
images ftand : thfe old Englifli "corbel was properly a nich 
in the wall of a church, or other ftru&ure in which an 
image was placed for ornament or fuperftition ; and the 
corbel-ftones were the .fmooth polifhed ftones laid for the 
•front and outfide of the corbels or niches. The niches 
remain on the outfide of many churches and fteeples in 
England, though the ftatues and relics are molt of them 
broken down. 
COR'BELIN, a town of France, in the department' of 
the Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in the diftribt of 
La Tour du Pin : thirty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Lyons. 
COR'BENY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aifne : fifteen miles north-north-weft of Reims. 
COR'BERA, a town of Spain, in the province of Va¬ 
lencia : twenty miles foyth of Valencia, 
COR'BET, \_corbeau., Fr. a little crow. ] A furname. 
COR'BET (Richard) , bifhop of Norwich, and an emi- 
, nent poet, was born at Ewell in Surry, toward, the end 
of the fifteenth century. He was educated at Oxford, 
and efteemed one of the mod celebrated wits of the uni- 
verfity. Entering into holy orders, he became a popular 
preacher, and was made chaplain to James I. After 
ieveral preferments in the church, he was, in 1629, made 
biftiop of Oxford ; and, in 1632, was tranflated to the fee 
of Norwich. He was very hofpitable, and always a ge¬ 
nerous encourager of merit. He died in 1635. There 
have been feveral editions of his poems publiihed, under 
the title of Pocmata Stromata. 
COR'BIE, a towui of France, in the department of the 
Somme,, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Amiens. It was taken by the Spaniards in 1636, and 
retaken by Louis XIII. the fame year. Louis XIV. dif- 
mantled it in 1673: three leagues eaft of Amiens,' and 
fix weft of Peronne. 
CORBIE'RES, a town of Swiflerland, and chief place 
of a bailiwick, in the canton of Friburg : ten miles fouth 
of Friburg. 
CORBIE'RES, a valley of France, near the Pyrenees, 
celebrated by a victory which Charles Martel obtained 
over the Saracens. 
CORBIGNY', a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftridf, in the department of the Nievre : nine leagues 
riorth-eaft of Nevers. 
COR'BITS, a place of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, near Meillen, where a battle was fought in 
1759, between the Pruffians and Imperialifts. 
COR'BRIDGE, a fmall town in the county of North¬ 
umberland, formerly a borough. It was burned by the 
Scots in 1296, and fuffered feverely from the fame in¬ 
vaders in 1311 : four miles eaft of Hexham. 
COR'CANG, or Aljorjaniyah, a town of Afia, on 
the river Gihun. 
COR'CAS, or Grand Corcas, an ifland almoft in 
the form of a crefcent, north of St. Domingo, in the 
windward paffage, about feven leagues weft of Turk’s 
ill and, and about twenty eaft of Little Inagua/ or Henea- 
gua. Lat. 21. 55. N. Ion. 70. 35. W. 
COR'CELET,/. See Corselet. 
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CORCELTE, a river of France, which runs into the 
Arroux, near Autun. 
COR'CHORUS, f [from 'purgo j an ordinary 
pot-herb, faid to be very bitter; hence the proverb of 
corchorus among the pot-herbs, to dignify any thing mean and 
contemptible.] In botany, a genus of the clafs polyan- 
dria, order monogynia, natural order columnifene,. The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium five-leaved ; 
leaflets linear-lanceolate, acute, erect, deciduous. Co¬ 
rolla "petals five, oblong, obtufe, narrower beneath, 
erect, length of the calyx. Stamina : filaments nume¬ 
rous, capillary, Ihorter than the corolla; antherae fmall. 
Piftillumgerm oblong, furrowed; ftyle tliick, Ihort; 
ftigma r two-cleft. Pericarpium : capfule oblong, five- 
celled, five-valvea. Seeds : very many, cornered, point¬ 
ed.— ■Effential Character. Corolla, five-petalled ; calyx, 
five-leaved,' deciduous; capfule, many-valved, many- 
celled. 
Species. 1. Corchorus olitorius,orbriftly-leavedcorcho- 
rus, or common Jew’s-niallow : capfules oblong, veutri- 
cofe; the loweft ferratures of the leaves fetaceous. Itisan 
annual plant, about tw'o feet high, and dividing into 
feveral branches ; leaves fome fpear-ihaped, others oval, 
fome almoft heart-fliaped, deep green, (lightly indented 
on tlieir edges, having near their bafe two briftly reflex 
fegments; they are on very long (lender petioles, efpe- 
cially the lower one; flowers leflile, folitary, yellow; 
feeds of an almoft pyramidal form, dark brown, fixed in 
a double row along the middle edge of the partitions. 
Native both ©f the Eaft and Weft Indies, and of Africa. 
Rauwolf fays it is fown in great plenty about Aleppo as 
a pot-herb, the Jews boiling the leaves to eat with their 
meat. It flowers in July and Auguft, and the feeds 
ripen in autumn. 
2. Corchorus trilocularis, or trilocular corchorus : cap¬ 
fules three-celled, three-valved, three-fided, angles bifid, 
fcabrous ; leaves oblong, the loweft ferratures fetaceous. 
Root annual; (terns fmooth and even, ereCt, a foot in 
height, round, green. Jaquin remarks, that the whole 
plant is fomewhat rugged, that the peduncles fuftain 
from one to three flowers, on very (liort pedicels, that 
the calyx is obfeurely tinged witli purple ; and that the 
feeds, which are fmall and blue, are ranged in a double 
row along the valves. Native of Arabia, where it was 
found by Forlkal. 
3. Corchorus tridens, or trifid corchorus : capfules 
linear, fomewhat columnar, fcabrous ; the loweft ferra- 
tures of the leaves fcabrpus. Stem fmooth and even, 
green. Native of the Eaft Indies. 
4. Corchorus asftuans, or horn-beam leaved corcho¬ 
rus : capfules oblong, three-celled, tbree-valvcd, lix- 
furrowed, fix-cufped ; leaves cordate : the loweft ferra¬ 
tures fetaceous. Stem ftrong, tv/o feet high, divided 
at the top into two >or three branches; leaves on long 
petioles, and between them feveral fmaller leaves nearly 
of the fame form, fitting clofe to the branches ; the 
flowers come out fingly on the fide of the branches; 
feeds fmall, varioufly cornered, blackilh. Native of tire 
Weft Indies. 
5. Corchorus capfularis, or .heart-leaved corchorus.; 
capfules roundilh, deprefled, wrinkled; the lower ferra¬ 
tures of the leaves fetaceous. This rifes with a (lender 
(bilk about three feet high, fending out feveral weak 
branches; at each joint is one leaf, of an oblong heart- 
fhape, ending in a long acute point, ferrate, and on a 
(liort petiole ; the flowers come out fingly on the fide of 
the branches, to which they fit very clofe; they are 
fmaller than thofe of the former forts. Native cf the 
Eaft Indies and China. 
6. Corchorus hirfutus, or hirfute corchorus : capfules 
roundilh, woolly ; leaves ovate, obtufe, tomentofe, equal¬ 
ly ferrate. This (krub grows to the he : .ght of a man, 
with many round branches ; the young ones villofe. It 
is very diltinguiftiable from the other lores by .its toraen- 
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