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A cordwainer. [Obs.]

the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.

A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.

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.]

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

An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.

Disorder; dissoluteness. [Obs.] Excess of rideordination. Jer. Taylor.

To refuse to assent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not accordant. Fabyan.

Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Prov. vi. 19. Peace to ari…

That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. [R.] Halliwell.

State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

Full of discord; contentious. [Obs.] "His discordful dame." Spenser.

Full of discord. [Obs.]