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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.

See Albicore.

n and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

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

To decorate; to beautify. [Obs.] To decore and beautify the house of God. E. Hall.

Ornament. [Obs.]

A genus of plants. See Yam.

Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.

Four times twenty; eighty.

Same as Dugong.

A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee. [Scot.]

The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.

for the purpose of account. Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used. Shak.

One who, or that which, scores.