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An ornament in a building; a corbel.

An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.

Crooked. [Obs.] "Corbe shoulder." Spenser.

A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. [Obs.]

A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

Corbel work or the construction of corbels; a series of corbels or piece of continuous corbeled masonry, sometimes of decorative purpose, as in the stalactite ornament of the Moslems.

A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. Corbie crow, the carrion crow. [Scot.]

One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Antiscorbutic.

Scurry. [Obs.] Purchas.

rtaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms. -- Scor*bu"tic*al*ly, adv.

Scurvy.

A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper.

cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing. -- False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence. -- False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a properly organized fetus.…

e racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic. Climbing fumitory (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.…

Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.

An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.…