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A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.

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.

orpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. -- Corpus luteum (l; pl. Corpora lutea (-. Etym: [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mam…

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

tate of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.

or leader of a party or interest. That noted corypheus [Dr. John Owen] of the Independent faction. South.

A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic. Blount. (b) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. [Obs.] Cowell.

ent; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue. "Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle." I. Taylor. Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond t…

An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.

Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence. To give credence to the Scripture miracles. Trench. An assertion which might easily find credence. Macualay.

The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.

Having the characteristics of a cretin. "Cretinous stupefaction." Ruskin.

ited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.

A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded on such enduring criteria. Sir G. C. Lewis.

ire clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture.

A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. All now depends upon a good cry. Beaconsfield.