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Coronella

a genus of ophidians, the typical one of the family Coronellidæ. C. austriaca is common in Europe.

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Coronellide

a family of ophidians, suborder Colubrina. They are broad snakes, flat beneath, beneath, with the shields of the head regular.

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Coronis

the daughter of King Phoroneus, whom Neptune loved, and who was changed into a crow by Minerva.

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Coronite

an explosive, consisting of a mixture of nitroglycerin, nitro-cellulose, ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, aluminum stearate, rye flour, wood meal, and liquid paraffin.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Corps

a body; a word often used as a military and a political term. A corps d'armée, or army corps, one of the largest divisions of an army. In the United States it formerly numbered 25,- 000 men, but has now been replaced by a Field Army of two or more divisions under a lieutenant-general. The term was abolished in the British army in 1906. Corps diplomatique, the body of diplomatic characters. ministers or Corps législatif (kōr lā-zhis-la-tef), the lower house of the French legislature in 1857-1870. Its members were elected for six years in the proportion of one to 35,000 electors.

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Corpse Candles

Mysterious lights supposed to presage death. They are also called fetch-lights and dead men's candles. Coscinomancy is practised with a sieve, and a pair of tongs or shears, which are supported upon the thumb nails of two persons, who look one upon the other, or the nails of the middle finger may be used. Potter, in his Greek Antiquities, says: "It was generally used to discover thieves, or others suspected of any crime, in this manner: they tied a thread to the sieve by which it was upheld, or else placed a pair of shears, which they held up by two fingers, then prayed to the gods to direct and assist them; after that they repeated the names of the persons under suspicion, and he, at whose name the sieve whirled round or moved, was thought guilty." In the Athenian Oracle it is called "the trick of the sieve and scissors, the coskiomancy of the ancients, as old as Theocritus," he having mentioned in his third idyll, a woman who was very skilful in it. Saunders, in his Chiromancy, and Agrippa, at the end of his works, gives certain mystic words to be pronounced before the sieve will turn. It was used to discover love secrets as well as unknown persons. According to Grose, a chapter in the Bible is to be read, and the appeal made to St. Peter or St. Paul.

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Corpus Christi

city and countyseat of Nueces co., Tex.; on Corpus Christi bay, at the mouth of the Nueces river, and on the Mexican National, the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico, and the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railroads, 140 miles S. S. E. of San Antonio. It is the stock-raising and farming center of the county, and has an extensive fish and oyster-packing business, several daily and w weekly newspapers, a Catholic convent, several churches, 2 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,222; (1920) 10,522.

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Corpus Christi Festival

the most splendid festival of the Roman Catholic Church. It was instituted in 1264, in honor of the Consecrated Host and with a view to its adoration, by Pope Urban IV., who appointed for its celebration the Thursday after the festival of the Trinity and promised to all the penitents who took part in it indulgence for a period of from 40 to 100 days. The festival is chiefly distinguished by magnificent processions. In France it is known as the Fête Dieu; in Fronleichnamsfest. German, as the

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Corpuscle

minute solid microscopic bodies found in the blood. They known also as the red particles or the red globules; and (2) the colorless, known also as the white or pale corpuscles. The former are the more numerous. The colored corpuscles are not really globular; they are flattened or discoidal, the outline being circular. In most mammals the corpuscles are like those of man. In the camel, however, they are elliptical in outline. In birds, reptiles, and most fishes they are oval disks with a central elevation on each side. Those of the invertebrata are, as a rule, not colored, the annelids alone being an exception.

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Corral

in South America and elsewhere, a yard or stockade for cattle.

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Correggio

ANTONIO ALLEGRI (kō-redgyō) yō), commonly called CORREG- GIO from his birthplace; born in 1494, and appears to have first studied painting under Tonino Bartolotto of Correggio; in 1519 he was established as a painter at Parma. The celebrated cupola at Parma was begun in 1520, and in 1522 he undertook the great works of the dome of the cathedral; in the former representing the ascension of Christ, and in the latter, the assumption of the Virgin, both of which series are now admirably engraved by the Cavalier Toschi. The frescoes of the cathedral, left unfinished by Correggio, were completed by his pupil, Giorgio Gandini. Correggio died at his native place in 1534. His great reputation rests chiefly on the above-mentioned frescoes; but he had executed many excellent oil pictures before he proceeded to Parma in 1519. The "Night," of Correggio, in the Gallery of Dresden, is a picture of the nativity of Christ, in which the light proceeds from the body of the infant Saviour.

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Corregidor

a small island commanding the entrance to Manila bay, P. I. It has an area of 2 square miles, rising abruptly from the sea to a height of 635 feet. There is a lighthouse at the summit. The island was strongly fortified by the Spaniards in the 18th century, but the defenses were not kept up. When Admiral Dewey made his dash into Manila bay, May 1, 1898, he steamed past this island, which was supposed to be very strongly fortified. The forts have been strengthened by the United States Government, which established an arsenal here in 1900. Pop. of San Jose, the only town, 500. South of Corregidor is the smaller island of C Caballow, separated by a narrow strait.

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