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nual herbs sometimes used for salad. V. olitoria is also called lamb's lettuce. -- Corn stone, red limestone. [Prov. Eng.] -- Corn violet (Bot.), a species of Campanula. -- Corn weevil. (Zoöl.) (a) A small weevil which causes great injury to grain. (b) In America, a weevil (Sphenophorus zeæ) which attacks the stalk o…

buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensabl…

under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

mitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed only by act of Parliament. Blackstone.

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone.

r the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.

Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone.

Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.

ill not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion Sir W. Scott.

d rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.

A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. Gwilt.

year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.

-- Crab plover (Zoöl.), an Asiatic plover (Dromas ardeola). -- Crab's eyes, or Crab's stones, masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider…

The tone of voice when changed at puberty. Though now our voices Have got the mannish crack. Shak.

A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.

A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc.

In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.

A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, wich yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

The stonecrop (Sedum acre).