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Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

To glitter in flashes; to flash.

dden flash or play of light. A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call coruscation. Boyle.

See Corf.

An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.

p. p. of Carve. Chaucer.

A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

A curvet. Peacham.

Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.

See Cormorant.

One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. Dunglison.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

Corymbose.

Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.

Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. [Written also corymbous.]

In corymbs.

Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphæna. See Dolphin.

A ballet dancer.