Corium, n.

    1. Leather cuirass.
    2. (Anat.) Inner skin, true skin, cutis vera (in mammalia).

Cork, n.

    1. Bark of the Quercus suber, or cork-tree, epiphlœum.
    2. Stopple or stopper (made of cork).
    3. Frost-nail (in a horse-shoe).

Cormorant, n.

    1. Pelican-like sea-bird (Phalacrocorax carbo).
    2. Glutton, greedy fellow, belly-god, greedy-gut.

Cormorant, a. Greedy, rapacious, all-devouring.

Corn, n.

    1. Cereal grain.
    2. Maize, Indian corn.
    3. Horny excrescence.

Corn, v. a.

    1. Salt moderately, sprinkle with salt.
    2. [U. S., Scotch, and provincial.] Intoxicate, fuddle, muddle, inebriate, make drunk, make tipsy.

Corn-crake, n. Daker-hen, land-rail (Crex pratensis).

Corneous, a. Horny, corny.

Corner, n.

    1. Angle, bend, elbow, crotch, knee, cusp.

  By PanEris using Melati.

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