cord (1), coorde, corde (1)

& a. [O. Fr. & Fr. corde; Ital. cord a, from Low Lat. cord a=a cord; Lat. chorda; Gr. chorde the string of a musical instrument. Thus cord and chord are but different forms of the same word.] [CHORD.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) A small rope or string composed of several strands or twists. "The arms of the prisoner were bound behind him with a silken cord."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. v. (2) In the same sense as II. 3. ( Colloquial.) (3) ( Pl.): A suit of clothes made of corduroy. *(4) A large sinew. "Cordes or greate sinnowes of the bod ye. Tendines, tend ones."- Huloet. 2. Fig .: Anything which acts as a bond morally in the same way that a cord does physically; a moral tie, restraint, or attraction. IMG:content-0935.png:[blocks in formation] *1. Music: The string of a musical instrument, now written chord (q. v.). 2. Veterinary ( Pl . ): A contraction of the muscles of the neck; a disease of horses. "The cords , & the cout-evil, the clasps & the cleiks." Polwart : Flyting , p. 13. 3. Timber : A measure or quantity of wood, so called from having been originally measured with a cord of a certain length. It is a pile 8 feet long, 4 feet high, and 4 feet broad, and contains 128 cubic feet. exclusive of the very large growth of pine tim- ber on the estate, there are 1,250,000 cords of various other woods ."-London Daily Telegraph. 4. Fabrics: The same as CORDUROY (q. v.). fined by two vertical lines; also, the string which 5. Weaving : The space of the design-paper connects the neck-twines at the leaf. ( Knight . ) 6. Anat .: [SPINAL CORD.] "Having so far determined the functions of the entire cord."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., vol. i., ch. ii., 1. Made of small rope or string. 2. Made of corduroy. Obvious compound: Cord-maker. cord receives a covering of thread or silk; when Cord-covering machine: A machine in which a this is plaited on it constitutes braiding. ( Knight .) cord-dryer, s . A machine for drying sized or dyed cords, webbing-tapes, . cordelier 3. The ropes or rigging of a ship. "Our cordage torn, decay'd our ve els lie." Pope: Homer's Iliad , bk. ii., 1. 163. II. Fig .: Anything resembling a quantity of cords, as the tendrils of a vine, . "Hanging loose from their spars in a motionle calm in the tropics Stood a cluster of trees, with tangled cordage of grapevines." Long fellow: Evangeline, ii. 3. cor-da-i-tēş, s. [Named after Corda, a distinguished fo il botanist; with Gr. suff. itēs .] Palæont .: A genus of fo il vegetables, either a gymnosperm or a lycopod i a ceo us plant. It has broad, striated, parallel veined leaves. It is found both in the Devonian and in the Carboniferous rocks. Some have thought that the small fruit called, from its form, Cardio carp on, belongs to Cordaites, but this is doubtful.