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a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.

by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.

rn oyster, a fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, the combined taste resembling that of oysters. [U.S.] -- Corn parsley (Bot.), a plant of the parsley genus (Petroselinum ssegetum), a weed in parts of Europe and Asia. -- Corn popper, a utensil used in popping corn. -- Corn poppy (Bot.), the red pop…

shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

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

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).

Having processes resembling small horns.

A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.

Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn. Up stood the cornu reed. Milton.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.

Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

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

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

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

ry watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a cove…

Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.