Chapter Co-regent to Corner of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Corkage
(Cork"age) n. The charge made by innkeepers for drawing the cork and taking care of bottles of wine bought elsewhere by a guest.

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

Cork fossil
(Cork" fos`sil) (Min.) A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.

Corkiness
(Cork"i*ness) n. The quality of being corky.

Corking pin
(Cork"ing pin`) A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

Corkscrew
(Cork"screw`) n. An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.

Corkscrew stairs, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.

Corkscrew
(Cork"screw`), v. t. To press forward in a winding way; as, to corkscrew one's way through a crowd. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Corkwing
(Cork"wing`) n. (Zoöl.) A fish; the goldsinny.

Corky
(Cork"y) a.

1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry shriveled up.

Bind fast hiss corky arms.
Shak.

2. Tasting of cork.

Corm
(Corm) n. [See Cormus.]

1. (Bot.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.

2. (Biol.) Same as Cormus, 2.

Cormogeny
(Cor*mog"e*ny) n. [Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + root of gi`gnesqai to be born.] (Biol.) The embryological history of groups or families of individuals.

Cormophylogeny
(Cor`mo*phy*log"e*ny) n. [Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + E. phylogeny.] (Biol.) The phylogeny of groups or families of individuals. Haeckel.

Cormophytes
(Cor"mo*phytes) Cormophyta
(||Cor*moph"y*ta) n. pl. [NL. cormophyta, fr. Gr. kormo`s trunk of a tree + fyto`n plant.] (Bot.) A term proposed by Endlicher to include all plants with an axis containing vascular tissue and with foliage.

Cormorant
(Cor"mo*rant) n. [F. cormoran, fr. Armor. mor-vran a sea raven; mor sea + bran raven, with cor, equiv. to L. corvus raven, pleonastically prefixed; or perh. fr. L. corvus marinus sea raven.]

1. (Zoöl.) 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.]

2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. B. Jonson.

Cormoraut
(Cor"mo*raut), a. Ravenous; voracious.

Cormorant, devouring time.
Shak.