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A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

The substance which, added to the material of a cell wall, makes it waterproof, as in cork.

The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.

ent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.

n, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hematite. Raymond.

a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler.

A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.

A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket. Blue jacket. (Naut.) See under Blue. -- Steam jacket, a space filled with steam between an inner and an outer cylinder, or between a casing and a receptacle, as a kettle. -- To dust one's jacket, to give one a…

nd of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta- percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork.

A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

lines or curves. -- Mountain cock (Zoöl.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie. -- Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture. -- Mountain crystal. See under Crystal. -- Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus Simaruba (S. amarga) growing in the West Indies, which affords a bi…

A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like. Brande & C.

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Art of modeling in cork.

An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc. Hood.

To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble. Cotton.

(Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.

To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.