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  • English Word Cortical Definition Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.
  • English Word Corticate Definition Alt. of Corticated
  • English Word Corticated Definition Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
  • English Word Cortices Definition of Cortex
  • English Word Corticifer Definition One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.
  • English Word Corticiferous Definition Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.
  • English Word Corticiferous Definition Having a barklike c/nenchyms.
  • English Word Corticiform Definition Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.
  • English Word Corticine Definition A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.
  • English Word Corticose Definition Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.
  • English Word Corticous Definition Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.
  • English Word Cortile Definition An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
  • English Word Corundum Definition The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.
  • English Word Corundums Definition of Corundum
  • English Word Coruscant Definition Glittering in flashes; flashing.
  • English Word Coruscate Definition To glitter in flashes; to flash.
  • English Word Coruscation Definition A sudden flash or play of light.
  • English Word Coruscation Definition A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
  • English Word Corve Definition See Corf.
  • English Word Corvee Definition An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
  • English Word Corven Definition p. p. of Carve.
  • English Word Corves Definition of Corf
  • English Word Corvet Definition Alt. of Corvette
  • English Word Corvette Definition A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
  • English Word Corvetto Definition A curvet.
  • English Word Corvine Definition Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.
  • English Word Corvorant Definition See Cormorant.
  • English Word Corybant Definition One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
  • English Word Corybantes Definition of Corybant
  • English Word Corybantiasm Definition A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.