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counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts. [More commonly written controller.]

A peculiar whistling sound made by the Australian aborigenes as a call or signal. [Written also cooie.]

The great gray crane of India (Grus cinerea). [Also written coolen and cullum.]

A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [Written also comb.]

The red, or corn, poppy. [Written also cup-rose.]

nd is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

Copyhold; tenure; lease. [Obs.] Shak. Copy book, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate. -- Examined copies (Law), those which have been compared with the originals. -- Exemplified copies, those which are attested under seal of a court. -- Certified or Office copies, those which are ma…

ess. -- Copying press, a machine for taking by pressure, an exact copy of letters, etc., written in copying ink.

A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also core.]

he individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. [Written also corallet.]

A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.] [Scot.]

with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. [Written also korin.]

m of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

use for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it. [Written also corrody.]

The iron head of a tilting spear, divided into two, three, or four blunt points. [Written also cronel.] Grose.

on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred. [In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner.]

Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind. Shak.

ence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by corresp…