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Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I. Fosbroke.

A rival; a corrival.

Joint rivalry.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

The quality of being corky.

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

A fish; the goldsinny.

The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]

Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak.

Same as Cormus, 2.

The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.

A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese. [Written also corvorant.]

Ravenous; voracious. Cormorant, devouring time. Shak.

See Corm.