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e; hoecake. -- Corn cockle (Bot.), a weed (Agrostemma or Lychnis Githago), having bright flowers, common in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily. -- Corn fly. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fly which, in the larval state, is injurious to grain, living in the stalk, and ca…

The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes resembling cherries.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).

A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals. It is usually distinguished from the calyx by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors. See the Note under Blossom.

That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous. [Obs.] Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit. Shak.

A floret in an aggregate flower. [Obs.] Martyn.

A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end. [R.] Bp. Hacket.

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float 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…

To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams. [Obs.] Burton.

The flowing of different streams into one. [Obs.] Burton.

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

A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.

ure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

-- used with in and under. A well-couched invective. Milton. I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms. Blackw. Mag.

in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.