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A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.

Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

resembling coral; coralloid. Sir T. browne.

The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.

A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.] [Scot.]

A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

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.

ving the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral.

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st noncomissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons. -- Lance corporal, an assistant corporal on private's pay. Farrow. -- Ship's corporal (…

are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More.

In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present. Sharp.

A corporal's office.

The corporal, or communion cloth. [Obs.] Fuller.

n association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.

In a corporate capacity; acting as a coprporate body.

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.