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A fossil coralline.

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

Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.

The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

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

A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf.

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

Crooked. [Obs.] "Corbe shoulder." Spenser.

A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. [Obs.]

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.

A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]

One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

The common name of the kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.

The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ. [Obs.]

rial, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.