<B>corkage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a charge made by a restaurant or hotel for serving wine brought or sent in by a client. </DL>
<A NAME="corkblack">
<B>cork black,</B> =Spanish black.</DL>
<A NAME="corkboard">
<B>corkboard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a strawboard or cardboard in which ground cork is mixed with pulp. It is light, elastic, and useful as an insulator against heat and noise. </DL>
<A NAME="corkcambium">
<B>cork cambium,</B> =phellogen.</DL>
<A NAME="corked">
<B>corked, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>provided or stopped with a cork. <DD><B> 2. </B>tasting of the cork; spoiled by a poor cork. <BR> <I>Ex. corked wine.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>blackened with burnt cork. </DL>
<A NAME="corkelm">
<B>cork elm,</B> =rock elm.</DL>
<A NAME="corker">
<B>corker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that corks. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>a person or thing of surpassing quality or size. <DD><B> b. </B>something that clinches a discussion or settles a question. <DD><B> c. </B>something very striking or astonishing, such as a monstrous lie. <BR> <I>Ex. The story he told was a corker.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="corking">
<B>corking, </B>adjective, adverb, interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that corks. <BR> <I>Ex. a corking machine.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) excellent; outstanding; fine. <BR> <I>Ex. That was a corking record you made in the 50-yard dash.</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> remarkably; unusually. <BR> <I>Ex. a corking good show.</I> <DD><I>interj. </I> (Slang.) excellent! fine! </DL>
<A NAME="corkir">
<B>corkir, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of lichen furnishing a red dye. </DL>
<A NAME="corkjacket">
<B>cork jacket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a jacket made partly of cork, or lined with cork, to support a person in the water. </DL>
<A NAME="corkoak">
<B>cork oak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the oak tree, of the Mediterranean area, from which cork is obtained. </DL>
<A NAME="corkscrew">
<B>corkscrew, </B>noun, adjective, verb,<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a tool used to pull corks out of bottles. Corkscrews usually consist of a sharp-pointed steel spiral and a handle. <BR> <I>Ex. Nothing spoils the act of a man trying to play the ... host like a corkscrew that disembowels the cork and drops the shattered remains into the bottle (Newsweek).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> shaped like a corkscrew; spiral. <BR> <I>Ex. corkscrew curls.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Informal.) <B>1. </B>to cause to move or advance in a spiral or zigzag course. <BR> <I>Ex. [The horses] have to be corkscrewed into our diminutive stables (Augustus Jessop).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make (one's way) in a spiral or zigzag course. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd (Dickens).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Informal.) to proceed in a spiral or zigzag course. <BR> <I>Ex. She's on her way down, corkscrewing crazily through the sky with a whiplash motion (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="corktile">
<B>cork tile,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tile made from tree bark and used for flooring. </DL>
<A NAME="corktree">
<B>cork tree,</B> =cork oak.</DL>
<A NAME="corkwood">
<B>corkwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the light, porous wood of any one of various trees, especially of the balsa. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several trees yielding such wood, especially a large shrub that grows in the swamps of the southeastern United States. </DL>
<A NAME="corky">
<B>corky, </B>adjective, <B>corkier,</B> <B>corkiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) of or resembling cork: <DD><B> a. </B>corklike. <BR> <I>Ex. shoes with corky soles, floats with corky buoyancy.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) trifling, frivolous, or buoyant. <BR> <I>Ex. They felt so corky it was hard to keep them down (Oliver Wendell Holmes).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>tasting of the cork; corked. <BR> <I>Ex. corky wine.</I> noun <B>corkiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="corm">
<B>corm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fleshy, bulblike, underground stem of certain plants, such as the crocus and gladiolus, that produces leaves and buds on the upper surface and roots on the lower. A corm has smaller and thinner leaves than a bulb and it consists mostly of stem tissue. </DL>
<A NAME="cormel">
<B>cormel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small corm, especially one growing out of another corm. </DL>
<A NAME="cormophyte">
<B>cormophyte, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) any plant of a former primary division of the vegetable kingdom, comprising all plants with foliage and an axis differentiated into stem and root. </DL>
<A NAME="cormorant">
<B>cormorant, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a very large sea bird that has a pouch under its beak for holding captured fish. Cormorants are found in almost every part of the world. Some species grow to about three feet long. They have dark plumage, a long hooked beak, and webbed feet and are supposed to be greedy. Tame cormorants are used in Asia to catch fish. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a greedy person. <DD><I>adj. </I> greedy. (SYN) rapacious. </DL>
<A NAME="corn">
<B>corn</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a kind of grain that grows on large ears; maize; Indian corn. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant, a species of cereal grass, that it grows on. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=sweet corn.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>any small, hard seed or grain, especially of wheat, barley, or oats, but also of other plants such as the apple, grape, and pepper; kernel. <DD><B> 5. </B>(British.) grain in general, especially wheat. <BR> <I>Ex. During the war, the British government urgently asked the Americans for some thousands of bushels of "corn" to feed liberated populations (Holiday).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Scottish and Irish.) oats. <DD><B> 7. </B>any small, hard particle, as of sand or salt. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Skiing.) snow having the consistency of grain or granules; corn snow. <DD><B> 9. </B>(U.S. Informal.) <B>=corn whiskey.</B> <DD><B> 10. </B>(Slang.) something trite, outdated, or sentimental. <BR> <I>Ex. The lyrics ... contain just the right proportions of imagination, sentimentality, and corn (Time).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to preserve (meat) with strong salt water or with dry salt. <BR> <I>Ex. to corn beef.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to feed (an animal) with corn or grain. <BR> <I>Ex. There is nothing like corning the horse before the journey (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to plant with corn or grain. <DD><B> 4. </B>to form into grains, as gunpowder; granulate. adj. <B>cornlike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="corn">
<B>corn</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hardening of the skin, usually on a toe, caused by pressure or rubbing and often very painful. </DL>
<B>cornaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the dogwood family. </DL>
<A NAME="cornaphis">
<B>corn aphis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an American aphid that lives by feeding on sugar cane, Indian corn, and other grains; corn leaf aphid. </DL>
<A NAME="cornball">
<B>cornball, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a sentimental or unsophisticated person. <BR> <I>Ex. Several cornballs in the group, afflicted with ingrown scruples, made ineffectual protest (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something trite, banal, or of poor quality. <DD><I>adj. </I> characterized by triteness or sentimentality. <BR> <I>Ex. cornball escape fiction.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cornbells">
<B>cornbells, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bell-shaped fungus which sometimes grows in grainfields. </DL>
<A NAME="cornbelt">
<B>Corn Belt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an area in the Middle West where corn is grown extensively. Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana are included in the Corn Belt. </DL>
<A NAME="cornbinder">
<B>corn binder,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a harvesting machine for cutting, gathering, and binding together stalks of corn; corn harvester. </DL>
<A NAME="cornborer">
<B>corn borer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the larva of a small moth, a serious insect pest in the United States and elsewhere that destroys corn and other plants; European corn borer. </DL>
<A NAME="cornbran">
<B>corn bran,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the external coating of the kernel of maize, separated by grinding and bolting, used as food for cattle. </DL>
<A NAME="cornbread">
<B>corn bread,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> bread made of corn meal used either instead of flour or in combination with it. </DL>
<A NAME="corncake">
<B>corn cake,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a flat cake made with simple corn-meal batter; johnnycake; hoecake. </DL>
<A NAME="cornchip">
<B>corn chip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a thin, crisp chip or flake of fried corn meal, eaten as a snack. </DL>
<A NAME="corncob">
<B>corncob, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the central, woody part of an ear of corn, on which the kernels grow in rows; cob. <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>corncob pipe.</B> a tobacco pipe with a bowl hollowed out of a piece of dried corncob, often polished on the outside. </DL>
<A NAME="corncockle">
<B>corn cockle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a weed of the pink family with red or white flowers and black, poisonous seeds, that grows in grainfields. </DL>
<B>corn cracker,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S. Dialect.) a poor white of the southeastern United States; cracker (used in an unfriendly way). <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=corn crake.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="corncrake">
<B>corn crake,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bird of the same family as the rail, common in meadows and grainfields in Europe. </DL>
<A NAME="corncrib">
<B>corncrib, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bin or small, ventilated building for storing unshelled corn. </DL>
<A NAME="corndance">
<B>corn dance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ceremonial dance or festival held by American Indians in connection with the harvesting or planting of maize. </DL>
<A NAME="corndodger">
<B>corn dodger,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a small cake of baked, fried, or boiled corn bread; dodger. </DL>
<A NAME="cornea">
<B>cornea, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the transparent outside coat of the eyeball. The cornea covers the iris and pupil. <BR> <I>Ex. Light enters the eye through a transparent curved shell called the cornea, the space immediately behind which is filled with a liquid called the aqueous humor (Shortley and Williams).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="corneal">
<B>corneal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the cornea. <BR> <I>Ex. Corneal grafting, for example, allows a man suffering from an opaque cornea to see again by replacing it with [a] healthy cornea (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="cornearworm">
<B>corn earworm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large moth larva that eats cotton bolls and ears of corn; bollworm. </DL>
