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Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. [Obs.] Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.

The act of calling or assembling by summons.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.

resembling coral in form.

resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.

aste 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.

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.

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 poppy…

ub 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.