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One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.

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

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.

Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.

Having the character of a cosmopolite. [R.] Hackluyt.

ng or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealist…

Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.

A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.

A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.

Relating to, or produced by, flesh or animal food; as, creatic nausea. [Written also kreatic.]

Crescent-shaped. "Crescentic lobes." R. Owen.

A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (-Bentley.

Falsehood; lying; cretism.

One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since th…