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Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. Sir T. Browne.

A little horn. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

orns." Bp. Pearson. The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [Obs.] Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.

hough countenanced by learned men, is not made out either by experience or reason. Sir T. Browne. Error supports custom, custom countenances error. Milton.

(1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. Mrs. Browning.

A small cover; a lid. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.

; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.

Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.

by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.

he act or practice of cremating the dead. Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne.

ptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

s through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs. Browning.