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The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.

The quality of being corky.

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

A fish; the goldsinny.

The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]

Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up. Bind fast hiss corky arms. Shak.

See Shuttlecock.

To draw the cork from; as, to uncork a bottle.

An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

folia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

rm suitable for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson.

A corkscrew. Swift.

he act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

ir of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines. -- Breeches pipe, a forked pi…

A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts.

The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.