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Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.

Same as Cordwain. in England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

Trousers or breeches of corduroy. Corduroy road, a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]

y leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]

Of, or like, cord; having cords or cordlike parts.

urrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

Reconcilable; in accordance.

Agreement; harmony; conformity. "In strict accordance with the law." Macaulay.

Accordance. [R.] Paley.

consonant; harmonious; corresponding; conformable; -- followed by with or to. Strictly accordant with true morality. Darwin. And now his voice accordant to the string. Coldsmith.

In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.

One who accords, assents, or concedes. [R.]

Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.

Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

A player on the accordion.

Agreement; reconcilement. [Obs.] Gower.

A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

Good will; good fellowship; agreement. [Scot.]