CORE

A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. Bacon.

A miner's underground working time or shift. Raymond.

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a ssquare. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.

The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.

To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. Marston.

To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.