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The corporal, or communion cloth. [Obs.] Fuller.

onor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. -- Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. -- Corpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. -- Corpus luteum (l;…

A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.

In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [Written also cottar and cotter.]

Cloth made of cotton.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

or recommend, as an act or course. They who counsel war. Milton. Thus Belial, with words clothed in reson's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. Milton.

A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. Sir P. Sidney.

procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior. My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action. Shak. By perseverance in the course prescribed. Wodsworth. You hold your course without remorse. Tennyson.

The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.

A short coat of coarse cloth. [Obs.] Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.

A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton.

Harlotry.

ne thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.

The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.

comotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

A frame to keep the bedclothes from conntact with the person.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.