Coronite – Corymb
Coronite
an explosive, consisting of a mixture of nitroglycerin, nitro-cellulose, ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, aluminum stearate, rye flour, wood meal, and liquid paraffin.
Corot
JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE (kō-rō), a French artist; born in Paris, July 28, 1796; studied under Michallon and Victor Bertin and afterward in Italy. He exhibited for the first time in the Salon in 1827, but some years elapsed before the high qualities of his work were recognized. The fortune which he COROT CORPS
Corozo Nut
the seed of a palm, phytelephas macrocarpa, a native of tropical America, the hardened albumen of which is used by turners under the name of vegetable ivory.
Corporal
formerly a kind of brigade-major, who commanded skirmishing parties detached from the other forces. As now used it means a petty non-commissioned officer ranking immediately under a sergeant, and just above the ordinary rank and file. He has charge of one of the squads of the company, places and relieves sentinels, and keeps good order in the guard.
Corporal
a name given to the linen cloth, also called pall and chalice-veil, with which the celebrant covers what is left of the consecrated elements in the Holy Communion till the service is concluded.
Corral
in South America and elsewhere, a yard or stockade for cattle.
Corrosives
in surgery, substances which eat away whatever part of the body they are applied to; such are glacial acetic acid, burned alum, white precipitate of mercury, red precipitate of mercury, butter of antimony, etc.
Corso
an Italian term given to a leading street or fashionable carriagedrive.
Cortes
the states or legislative assemblies of the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, composed of the nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities.
They thus correspond in some measure to the British Houses of Parliament.
Cortissoz
ROYAL, an American journalist and art critic, born in New York City. He served as literary editor and art editor of the New York "Tribune," and contributed many articles on art subjects to magazines. He was the author of the lives of Augustus St.
Gaudens (1907), and John La Farge (1911), and also edited several works.
Cortland
a village and county-seat of Cortland co., N. Y.; on the Tioughnioga river; and the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, and the New York Central railroads; 37 miles S. of Syracuse. as the maintenance of roads, etc.
Corymb
in botany, that form of inflorescence in which the flowers, each on its own pedicel of different lengths, are so arranged along a common axis as to form a flat, broad mass of flowers with a convex or level top, as in the hawthorn and candytuft.