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CORN'Y, adj. [from cornu, horn, Lat.] Strong or 
hard like horn; horny : 
Up Hood the corny reed, 
Embattcl’d in her field. Milton. 
[from corn .] Producing grain or corn : 
Tell me why the ant, 
’Midi fummer’s plenty, thinks of winter’s want; 
By conftant journeys careful to prepare 
Her ltores, and bringing home the corny ear. Prior. 
Containing corn: 
They lodge in habitations not their own, - 
By their high crops, and corny gizzards known. Dry den. 
CORNY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Mofelle, and chief place' of a canton, in the aiftrict of 
Metz : two leagues and a half fouth of Metz. 
CO'RO, a town of South America, in Terra Firma, 
at the bottom of the gulf of Venezuela, fixty miles well 
of La Guaira. Lat. n.N. Ion. 70. W, 
CO'RODY, J'. \_corod.ium , Lat.] A fum of money, or 
allowance of meat, drink, and clotliingj formerly due, 
to the king from an abbey, or other houfe of religion, 
whereof he was founder, towards the fuftentation of Inch 
of his fervants as he thought fit to bellow it upon. The 
difference between a corody and a penlion feems to be, 
that a corody was allowed towards the maintenance of 
any of the king’s fervants in an abbey : a penfion is given 
to one of the king’s chaplains, for his better maintenance, 
till he be provided "of a benefice. Corody is very ancient 
in our laws; and by the ilatute of Weilminiler 2. c. 25. 
it is, ordained, that an aflife fhall lie for a corody. It is 
alfo apparent by 34 and 35 Hen. VIII. c. 26. that coro- 
dies belonged fometimes to bifhops, and noblemen, from 
monafteries. And in the New Terms of Law, it is laid 
that a corody may be due to a common perfon, by grant 
from one to another; or of common right to him that is a 
founder of a religious houfe, not holden in Franh-almoigne ; 
for that tenure was a difeharge of all coroaies in itfelf. 
By this book it likewife appears, that a corody is either 
certain or uncertain, and may not be only for life or years, 
but in fee. Terms de Ley. zlnjl. 630.. 
CORCE'BUS, a Phrygian, fonof Mygdon and Anaxi- 
mena. He allilled Priam in the Trojan war, with the 
ho'pes of being rewarded with the hand of Calfandra for 
liis lervices. Calfandra adviled him in vain to retire from 
the war. He was killed by Peneleus.—A hero of Argo- 
lis, who killed the ferpent fent by Apollo to avenge 
Argos. His country was afflidted with a-plague, and he 
conlulted the oracle of Delphi, which commanded him 
to build a temple, where a tripod which was given him 
ihould fall from his hand. Paufanias. 
COROL'LA,/. [from corona, Lat. a crown. ] In bo¬ 
tany, the lecond of the leven parts of fructification; or, 
the inner,covering of the flower, formed, according to 
Linnaeus, 1 of the liber , or inner bark of the plant. It 
may commonly be diftinguifhed from the perianthium, by 
the finenefs of its texture and the gaynefs of its colours: 
whereas the perianthium is ufually rougher and thicker, 
and green. But there are many exceptions : the peri¬ 
anthium in bartfia is coloured ; the corolla in Daphne 
laureola is green. Linmeus makes the diftindlion between 
the corolla and perianthium to conlilt, in the former hav¬ 
ing its fegments or petals alternate with the llamens ; 
whereas the latter has its parts or leaflets oppofite to 
them. This appears from the inlpedtion of the clalfes 
tetrandria and pentandria, in flowers which have both 
parts; and of chenopodium, urtica, parietaria, which 
have no corolla. Adanfon however obferves, that in 
the liliaceous plants, what is called a corolla is in reality 
a perianthium, according to the principles of Linnaeus. 
That part which is named corolla of rhamnus, in Lin. 
Gen. is called calyx in Syfl. Veget. and on the contrary, 
the calyx or perianthium of polygonum in Lin. Gen. is 
the corolla in Syfl. Veg. To get rid of the difficulty, 
c o n 
which fometimes occurs in diflinguifhing the corolla from ' 
the Calyx, DeNecker has cut the knot, and called them 
by one name, perigynanda ; which fignifies the envelope, 
cover, or wrapper, of the ftamens and piftils : this he dif- 
tinguiflies into inner and outer, when-there are two ; then 
the firll is the corolla, and the fecond the perianthium.- 
Some choofe to tranflate corolla by blojfom-, but bloftbm 
has a more contracted fignification in Englilh, being ufu¬ 
ally applied to the flowers of fruit-trees. Belides this, 
it is contrary to the principles that ought to regulate lyf- 
tenis. The neClarium or nectary is confidered as a part 
of the corolla. The corolla is frequently, but inaccu¬ 
rately, called the flower. The diminutive corollet or 
corollule (corollula) is ufed in fpeaking of the florets in 
aggregate flowers. See Botany, vol. iii. p. 247. 
COROL'LARY, f. \corollarium, Lat. from corolla-, finis 
coronat opuscorollair, Fr.] The conclulion: a corollary 
feems to be a conclufion, whether following from the 
premifes necelfarily or not.—Now fince we have confi¬ 
dered the malignity of this fin of detraction, it is but a 
natural corollary, that we enforce our vigilance again!! it. 
Government of the Tongue. —As a corollary to this preface, 
in which I have done juftice to others, I owe fomewhat 
to myfelf. Dryden. — Surplus: 
Bring a corollary , 
Rather than want. .Shakcfpeare. 
COROMANDEL' COAST, the northern boundary, 
or fiea coaft, of the Carnatic, in Eaftern Hindooftan, which 
originally formed part of the great foubahffiip Mr vice¬ 
royalty of the Decan. This whole coafl, which com¬ 
prehends an extent of upwards of four hundred miles, 
from the mouth of the river Kiftna to Calymere Point, 
is entirely deftitute of harbours. The (hipping are obliged 
to lie at anchor in the open roads, ufually in eight fathoms 
water, and at about a mile and a half diftant from land ; 
and larger ffiips at two miles diftance, in ten or twelve 
fathoms: at twenty miles diftance the water deepens to 
twenty fathoms; and a little farther to fixty or feventy. 
Midway between Tranqucbar and che Nicobar dies, there 
is no bottom to be found with feven hundred fathoms of 
line. On the whole (Lore breaks a molt dangerous and 
high furf, which appals the ftouteft feanlan: no European 
boat can attempt to land. The catamarans, or boats of 
that country, are alone ufed on this coaft. They are of 
a particular conftrudtion, being formed without ribs or 
keel, with flat bottoms, and having their planks fewed 
together; iron being totally excluded throughout the 
whole fabric. By this conftruction they are rendered 
flexible enough to elude the effects of the violent ftiocks 
which they receive, by the dafliing of the waves or furf 
on the beach, and which either overfets Or breaks to 
pieces a boat of European conftruCtion. Lat. 15.43. N. 
Ion. 10. 20. to the mouth of the Kiftna. See the article 
Hindoostan. 
CO'RON,/ [ 7-0 Heb.] A Jewifli liquid meafure, 
containing about feventy-five gallons. 
CO'RON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCt of Vihiers: one league and a half weft-fonth -welt 
of Vihiers, Near this place the royalifts of La Vendee, 
under Charette, only fix thoufand ftrong, had the bold- 
nefs to attack forty thoufand republicans, and defeated 
them, taking part of their artillery and baggage : anno 
1792. 
CO'RON, a fea-port town of European Turkey, in 
the Morea, fituated on a gulf to which it gives name: 
anciently called the Gulf of Mcjina, with a large harbour. 
This place was taken from the Turks by the Venetians 
in 1CS5, after a molt obftinate fiege, which Lifted forty- 
nine days. The Turks retook it in 1715, with little lofis. 
It is eighty miles fouth-fouth-weft ot Corinth. Lat. 37. 
N. Ion. 39.41. E. -Ferro. 
CORO'NA, Crown, or Crowning,/, in architec¬ 
ture, the flat and molt advanced part of the cornice ; fio 
called, 
