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ve a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army.

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 kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.

r substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial. His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. Milton. Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.…

Materialism. Cudworth.

One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

In the body; in a bodily form or manner.

Corporeality; corporeity.

The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.

Of the color of cream; light yellow. "Cream-colored horses." Hazlitt.

Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly $5,000,000). [East Indies] Malcolm.

(Zoöl.) One of the Ctenophora.

An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ.