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A layer of tiles forming a corona for a wall.

Same as Corona.

The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.

that it may run freely. -- French honeysuckle (Bot.) a plant of the genus Hedysarum (H. coronarium); -- called also garland honeysuckle. -- French horn, a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues;…

rs, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath. Pope.

d adjacent islands. The Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the beat known species.

A character [thus pause, and corona.

d name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe. -- Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail. -- Horsehoe nose (Zoöl.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having…

ot has emetic properties. It is sometimes called the rush-leaved daffodil. See Illust. of Corona.

The inner corona. [R.]

merican and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. -- Mock sun. See Parhelion. -- Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle…

A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta. Oxf. Gloss.

The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.

A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.

minal; as, to die on the scaffold. That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation. Sir P. Sidney.

A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.

A very small humming bird (Microchæra albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

Anything resembling such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.

de of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.