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Same as Cordwain. in England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

Trousers or breeches of corduroy. Corduroy road, a roadway formed of logs laid side by side across it, as in marshy places; -- so called from its rough or ribbed surface, resembling corduroy. [U.S.]

y leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]

Of, or like, cord; having cords or cordlike parts.

A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. Bacon.

Energy wasted by hysteresis or eddy currents in the core of an armature, transformer, etc.

A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil. -- Cor`e*plas"tic (-plas"tik), a.

That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.

A basket.

A native or inhabitant of Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Consisting of or resembling, leather; leatherlike; tough.

An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

nic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]

See Corrundum.

The common gazelle (Gazella dorcas). See Gazelle. [Written also korin.]

A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.

Pertaining to Corinth.

Of or relating to Corinth.