<B>coquina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a soft, porous, whitish limestone composed of fragments of sea shells and corals. <BR> <I>Ex. Coquina is used in Florida and the West Indies as a building material.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a small clam of many shades of color found on the surface of beaches, used especially for making a soup. </DL>
<A NAME="coquito">
<B>coquito, </B>noun, or <B>coquito palm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a palm of Chile, whose sap is boiled to make sweet syrup. </DL>
<A NAME="cor">
<B>cor</B> (1), interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, or the like. </DL>
<B>coraciiform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an order of birds that includes the kingfishers, hornbills, motmots, bee eaters, rollers, and hoopoes. </DL>
<A NAME="coracle">
<B>coracle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, light boat made by covering a wooden frame with wicker or grass and a waterproof material such as pitch or animal skin. A coracle looks somewhat like a basket. It originated in ancient England and is still used in Wales and Ireland, especially for inland fishing. <BR> <I>Ex. In wicker-framed coracles planked with hides they voyaged even to the Hebrides (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coracoid">
<B>coracoid, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a bone between the shoulder blade and the breastbone in birds and certain reptiles. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bony process extending from the shoulder blade to or toward the breastbone in mammals. <DD><I>adj. </I> of this bone or bony process. </DL>
<A NAME="coral">
<B>coral, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a stony, often brightly colored substance consisting of skeletons of certain kinds of tiny sea animals called polyps, which usually live in colonies in warm seas. Coral is mainly calcium carbonate. Reefs and small islands consisting of coral are common in the South Seas, the Caribbean, and Bermuda. Coral is often used for jewelry. <BR> <I>Ex. Coral grows in tropical areas in shallow water, and in the Pacific and Indian Oceans there are many coral atolls that are ringlike islands, enclosing a lagoon (Gaskell and Hill).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any of the skeletons forming this substance. <DD><B> 2. </B>the little sea animal (a polyp) which makes coral and often forms large, branching or rounded colonies by budding. It is mostly stomach and mouth. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a piece of coral, especially red or pink coral, made into jewelry. <DD><B> b. </B>a toy made of polished coral, or of glass, bone, or the like, given to infants as a teething ring. <DD><B> 4. </B>a deep pink or red; coral red. <BR> <I>Ex. His barefoot soldiers ... tramping the snow to coral where they trod (James Russell Lowell).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the roe or unfertilized eggs of the lobster, that turn red when boiled. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=coral snake.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>made of coral. <BR> <I>Ex. a coral necklace.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>resembling coral, especially in color; deep-pink or red; coral-red. <BR> <I>Ex. Forth from her coral lipssuch folly broke (William Congreve).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>producing coral. <BR> <I>Ex. the coral polyps.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>marked by the presence of coral. <BR> <I>Ex. the coral seas.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coralbells">
<B>coralbells, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> a widely cultivated plant of the saxifrage family, native to Arizona and New Mexico, having bright red flowers shaped like bells. </DL>
<A NAME="coralberry">
<B>coralberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a North American shrub of the honeysuckle family, bearing clusters of coral-red berries in the axils of the leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="coraled">
<B>coraled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> abounding in coral. </DL>
<B>coral limestone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> stone made of fossil coral. </DL>
<A NAME="coralline">
<B>coralline, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>consisting of or containing coral. <DD><B> 2. </B>like coral in shape or color. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a coral or any similar animal. <BR> <I>Ex. Then the ebbing waters reveal a sea floor enamelled with the rose of encrusting corallines (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any of a family of red algae whose fronds contain lime. </DL>
<A NAME="corallite">
<B>corallite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fossil coral. <DD><B> 2. </B>the coral skeleton of a polyp. </DL>
<A NAME="coralloid">
<B>coralloid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resembling or formed like coral. </DL>
<A NAME="coralloidal">
<B>coralloidal, </B>adjective. =coralloid.</DL>
<A NAME="corallum">
<B>corallum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-la.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the calcareous skeleton of a compound coral, consisting of individual corallites. </DL>
<A NAME="coralpink">
<B>coral pink,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a yellowish-pink color. </DL>
<A NAME="coralred">
<B>coral red,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a yellowish-pink or yellowish-red color. </DL>
<A NAME="coralreef">
<B>coral reef,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a reef consisting mainly of coral. <BR> <I>Ex. Coral reefs are built up from the bottom in tropical areas by two different groups of coelenterates, aided by a number of other lime-depositing organisms (A. Franklin Shull).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="coralsnake">
<B>coral snake,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, very poisonous American snake whose body is banded with alternating rings of various colors, especially red, yellow, and black. It belongs to the same family as the cobra and is found in the southern United States, Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America. </DL>
<A NAME="coramjudice">
<B>coram judice,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) before a judge having proper jurisdiction. </DL>
<A NAME="coramnobis">
<B>coram nobis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>(Law.) issued to order a review of a case involving an alleged error of fact. <BR> <I>Ex. The United States Court of Appeals granted a writ of error coram nobis to a man who had already served four years for mail theft (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) before us. </DL>
<A NAME="corampopulo">
<B>coram populo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) before the people; in public. </DL>
<A NAME="coranglais">
cor anglais, =English horn.</DL>
<A NAME="coranto">
<B>coranto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tos</B> or <B>-toes.</B> =courante.</DL>
<A NAME="corban">
<B>corban, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sacrificial gift made to God among the ancient Jews, especially in fulfillment of a vow. </DL>
<A NAME="corbeil">
<B>corbeil, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) a sculptured ornament shaped like a basket of flowers, fruit, etc. </DL>
<A NAME="corbeille">
<B>corbeille, </B>noun. =corbeil.</DL>
<A NAME="corbel">
<B>corbel, </B>noun, verb, <B>-beled,</B> <B>-beling</B> or (especially British) <B>-belled,</B> <B>-belling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a bracket of stone, wood, or other material, on the side of a wall. It helps to support a projecting ledge above. <DD><B> 2. </B>a short timber placed so as to support a girder, beam, or the like, or to give it a larger bearing. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to furnish with or support by a corbel or corbels. </DL>
<A NAME="corbeling">
<B>corbeling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the use or arrangement of corbels in building. <DD><B> b. </B>corbels. <DD><B> 2. </B>a system of masonry in which each course of stones or bricks projects beyond the one below. </DL>
<B>corbie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a raven or crow. </DL>
<A NAME="corbiegable">
<B>corbie gable,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gable made with corbiesteps. </DL>
<A NAME="corbiestep">
<B>corbiestep, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) one of a series of steps sometimes used instead of a straight slope on the top of a gable wall. </DL>
<A NAME="corbina">
<B>corbina, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of several croakers, especially a bronze-colored game fish of the North and South American coasts. <DD><B> 2. </B>a dark-backed weakfish with spotted sides. Also, <B>corvina.</B> </DL>
