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Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.

l tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

rain whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]

Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphæna. See Dolphin.

Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

Like a fish of the genus Cottus. -- n.

Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. [Eng.] W. Black. Blackmore.

A coverlet. All the coverlid was clocth of gold. Tennyson.

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

The hide of a cow.

To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]. Southey.

See under Laid.

Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.

Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

Crinoidal. -- n.