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Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.

s and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind. Shak.

Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial. His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. Milton. Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or ha…

Materialism. Cudworth.

One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.

free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood corpuscles (Physiol.), in man, yellowish, bicon…

nomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter. -- Corpuscular theory (Opt.), the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by…

rgy, under Conservation. -- Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of energy, may exert.

a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.

thless. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. Matt. vi. 19.

The product of corruption; putrid matter.

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

ructure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

ct cognizance. The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.