Corant, Coranto

[Fr. courante.] A stately, sprightly dance, long gone out of fashion. Cora'to, a town of S. Italy, in Terra di Bari, 14 m. S.E. of Barletta; pop. 24,576. Corb, n. [Lat. corbis, a basket.] A collier's basket. -An alms-basket. See CORBAN. Cor'bach, KoRBACH, a small town of Germany, cap. of the principality of Waldeck, on the Itter, 28 m. S.W. of Ca el; pop . 2,500. Near it, July 10, 1760, the allied English and Germans were defeated by the French. Cor'ban, n . [Heb. korban , a sacrifice An alms-basket; a receptacle of charity; a gift; a church almonry. "They think to satisfy all obligations to duty by their corban of religion." - King Charles I. ( Script .) A sacred gift, a present devoted to God, or to his temple. ( Matt . xxiii. 18.) The Pharisees, and the Talmudists their succe ors, permitted even debtors to defraud their creditors by consecrating their debt to God; as if the property were their own, and not rather the right of their creditor. -A religious ceremony among the Moslems, performed at the foot of Mount Ararat, by the slaughter of a certain number of sheep, and distributing them as alms to the poor. Corban dale, in Tenne ee, a post-office of Montgomery co. Corbeau, ( kor - bo ' ,) in New York , a village of Clinton co. Corbeil, n. [Fr. See CORBEL.] ( Fort .) A small gabion. See GABION. ( Arch .) A sculptured basket; a corbel. Corbeil, ( kor'bai ,) a town of France, dep. Seine-et-Oise, at the junction of the E onne with the Seine, 18 m. from Paris; important for its mills and trade in flour. Cor'bel, Cor'bil, n. [Fr. corbeille , a basket, from Lat. corbicula , a little basket, dim. of corbis , a wicker-basket.] ( Arch .) A projecting bracket often sculptured like a modillion, sometimes in the form of a basket, for IMG:content-0368.jpg:[blocks in formation] the purpose of supporting a superincumbent object, or for receiving the springing of an arch. A corbel-table (fig. 680) is a projecting battlement, parapet, or cornice resting upon a series of corbels. -v. a. To furnish or fit with corbels. Corbettsville, in New York , a P. O. of Broome co. Corbie-steps, n . pl . ( Arch . ) Steps up the sides of a gable, found in old houses in Belgium, Holland, Germany, .