Coris (kor is)

[NL., 2. [l. c.] A plant of the genus Coris. 1267 (cortic-), bark, particularly the bark of the corktree (which was called suber, > suber, cork): see cortex.] I. n. 1. A species of oak, Quercus Suber, growing in the south of Europe (especially in Spain and Portugal) and in the north of Africa, having a thick, rough bark, for the sake of which it is often planted. It grows to the height of from 20 to 40 feet, and yields bark every 6 to 10 years for 150 years.-2. The outer bark of this oak, which is very light and elastic, and is used for many purposes, especially for stoppers for bottles and casks, for artificial legs, for inner soles of shoes, for floats of nets, etc. It grows to a thickne of one or two inches, and after removal is re the name of suberin. placed by a gradual annual growth from the original cork cambium. Burnt cork or Spanish black is used as an artists' pigment, and was formerly employed in medicine. Finely powdered cork has been used as an absorbent, 3. In bot., a constituent of the bark of most phænogamous plants, especially of dicotyledons. It constitutes the inner growing layer known as cork cambium, cork meristem, or phellogen, the outer dead portion constituting the bulk of the bark. (See bark2 .) It may also occur within the stem itself, and is often formed in the repair of wounds in plants. 4. Something made of cork. Specifically - (a) A cork heel or sole in a shoe. When she gaed up the tolbooth stairs, The corks frae her heels did flee. The Queen's Marie (Child's Ballads, III. 118). (b) A stopper or bung for a bottle, cask, or other ve el, cut out of cork; also, by extension, a stopper made of some other substance: as, a rubber cork. (c) A small float of cork used by anglers to buoy up their fishing-lines or to indicate when a fish bites or nibbles; by extension, any such float, even when not made of cork. - Fo il cork. See fo il.-Mountain cork, a variety of asbestos. - Velreddish color and not le than an inch and a half thick. vet cork, the best quality of cork-bark. It is of a pale II. a. Made of or with cork; consisting wholly or chiefly of cork. - Cork carpet. See kamptulicon . - Cork jacket, a contrivance in the form of a jacket without sleeves, padded with pieces of cork, designed buoy up a person in the water. - Cork lace. See lace. cork1 (kôrk), v. t. [ corm