cor nubia nite (kornu bianit)

[ veloped at the junction of those rocks with the slates, resembling to a certain extent, both in nature origin, the "capel" of the Cornish miner. See capel. cornucopia (kôr-nū-kō'pi-ä), n. [ALL.accom., as a single word, of L. cornu cop iæ, lit. horn of plenty; cornu = E. horn; cop iæ, gen. of copia, plenty: see horn and copy.] 1. In cla ical antiq., the horn of plenty (which see, under horn ). Achelous in great pain and fright, to redeem his horn, presents Hercules with the cornu - copia. Bacon, Political Fables, ix. lantic States and C. Nuttallii on the Pacific coast, are small trees and very ornamental, having the small cyme surrounded by a large and conspicuous involucre of four white bracts. The wood is very hard, close-grained, and tough, and is used as a substitute for boxwood for mak ing bobbins and shuttles for weaving, and also in cabinetwork. Some of the species, as C. Can a dens is (the bunchberry) and C. Suecica, are dwarfed and herbaceous, with similar showy flowers followed by clusters of red berries. IMG:content-1328.png:[blocks in formation] Chaucer, Prol. to Pardoner's Tale, 1. 170. IMG:content-1329.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1330.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1331.jpg:[blocks in formation]