courol (korol)

[F. form of native name.] A Mad a gas can bird of the genus Leptosomus and family Lep to soma tid a. G. Cuvier. couronne (kö-ron'), n. [F., lit. a crown, L. corona, a crown: see crown, n., and corona.] A crown: a French word used in English in some special senses. (a) In lace - making, a decorative loop used as part of an ornamental border, whether of the whole piece of lace or of a leaf or flower in the pattern. A row of couronnes often has the effect of a row of battlements. (b) A French coin. (1) The couronne d'or, or gold crown, coined about 1340, and worth about $3.50. (2) The écu à la couronne, worth about $2.67 when first coined in 1384: but succe ive i ues were lighter, and during the fifteenth century the usual value was $2.20. (3) The denier à la couronne and gros à la couronne, coins of silver or billon, worth from 2 to 7 United States cents. (c) A vegetable tracing-paper, 14 × 19 inches in size. - Couronne des ta es [F., lit. a crown or circle of cups: see crown, n., corona, and ta , ta e ], a simple kind of voltaic battery invented by Volta, long since superseded by more powerful apparatus. It consists of a series of cups arranged in a circle, each containing salt water or dilute sulphuric acid, with a plate of silver or copper and a plate of zine immersed in it, the silver or copper of each cup being connected with the zinc of the next, and so on. When a wire is led from the silver or copper of the last to the zinc of the first, a current of electricity pa es through the circuit. This was the first liquid battery invented. See battery, 8. couronné (kö-ro-nā'), a. [F., pp. of couronner, 1311