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Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.

The pomp or assembly at a coronation. Pope.

A colonel. [Obs.] Spenser.

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred. [In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner.]

reignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

Having the form of a crown or coronet; resembling a crown.

related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable. W. W. Goodwin.

The principal gaseous substance forming the solar corona, characterized by a green line in the coronal spectrum.

Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.

Crown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.

See Corporas.

lowest noncomissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons. -- Lance corporal, an assistant corporal on private's pay. Farrow. -- Ship's corpor…

ents are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More.

In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present. Sharp.

A corporal's office.