corIander, coliaundre

[Dan.coriander; Sw., Dut., & Ger. koriander; Fr. coriandre; Ital. coriandro, coriandolo, all from Lat. cor i and rum (q.v.).) 1. Ord. Lang. & Bot.: An umbelliferous plant, Cor i and rum sativum. It has an erect, leafy stem, the lower leaves bipinnate, the upper more divided, the uppermost of all nearly setaceous. Fruit gloribs. It has escaped from cultivation and become bose, nearly undivided, with ten obscure lines or wild in many places. It is a native of Southern Europe and the Levant. "And coriander last to these succeeds, That hangs on slightest threads her trembling seeds." Cowper: Translations from Virgil ; The Salad . 2. Scrip .: The word occurs in Exod. xvi. 31, and Numb. xi. 7. It is the rendering of the Hebrew word gad , and the translation is probably correct, for Celsus says that goid is coriander. IMG:content-0953.jpg:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0954.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0955.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Corinth and its Church: Corinth was a cele- brated city, situated on the isthmus separating the Peloponnesus from the mainland of Greece, and with a lofty and extensive citadel, the A croc or in- thus, keeping watch over the security of the plain To rival, to emulate. below. The Isthmian games were held in the vicinity. Commerce had made the city wealthy, and wealth had rendered it corrupt. Courtesans swarmed in it everywhere, and the Greek verb korinthiazomai meant to commit impurity of a gro kind. Some improvement had taken place since the old Greek city had given way to the Roman one founded by Julius Cæsar; but still the moral reputation of the place was low. It, how- ever, stood high intellectually. Two visits of the Apostle paid to Corinth are described in the Acts of the Apostles. During the first of these residences in Corinth, which continued for about eighteen months, from A. D. 51 to A. D. 53, he founded the Christian Church there, the majority of the con- verts being Gentiles (Acts xviii. 1-18). Afterward the eloquent Apollos took up the work (Acts xix. 1). The second recorded visit from St. Paul to Greece -doubtle including Corinth-continued three months (Acts xx. 3); but an unrecorded visit seems also to have been made (2 Cor. xii. 14, xiii. 1). There is some reason to believe that there may also have been an epistle, now lost, earlier than the two which form part of the canon (1 Cor. v. 9). (2) The two canonical epistles to the Corinthians : The external and internal evidence that these two epistles emanated from St. Paul is so strong that it convinced even the skeptical mind of Dr. Ferdinand Christian Baur, who, allowing only four of the epis- tles attributed to St. Paul to have been really his, placed the two to the Corinthians among the four. The four wore Galatians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and Romans, and the order in which they are now given is that in which, in his view, they were i ued at first. The probable date of the two epistles to the Corinthians is A. D. 57; the first having been written from Ephesus (1 Cor. xvi. 8), and the second a few months later from Macedonia (2 Cor. i. 16, viii. 1, ix. 4, xi. 9). The subtlety of the Greek mind and other causes had produced divisions in the Church of Cor- inth, and four parties had arisen, one of Paul, one of Apollos, one of Cephas, and one of Christ. The first "doubtle believed in the high apostolic dignity of St. Paul, and being mainly Gentile, approved of his casting off the burdensome yoke of Judaism. The party of Cephas, consisting of Judaizing Christians, depreciated the authority of St. Paul, representing his call to the apostleship as late in time and ab- normal in character. The party of Apollos was probably in its e ence Pauline, but with more of that wisdom of the world which Paul had ignored at Corinth (1 Cor. i. 18-24). The party of Christ may have begun by profe ing to rise above all sects and ended by becoming itself sectarian. Besides these parties and the lack of Christian love which they IMG:content-0956.png:[blocks in formation] case of incest had been discovered, yet the perpe- trat or of the offense had been allowed to remain in the Church. Grave irregularities had also arisen in connection with the Holy Communion. There was serious error, too, in doctrine, the future resur- rection of the dead being called in question by some. The Apostle in the First Epistle combats *II. Fig .: A bawdy-house. Co-rin-thi-ắc, a. [Eng. Corinth; -iac.] Of or now penitent delinquent whose expulsion he had pertaining to Corinth; Corinthian. these errors with great eloquence and power. In his Second Epistle he welcomes back to the fold the IMG:content-0957.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0958.png:[blocks in formation] co-ris, s. [Gr. kor is a bug. kind of St. John's-wort. This is not the modern botanical genus Coris.] ulacesæ, family Primulidæ. It is a branched herb a- Bot.: A genus of perigynous exogens; order Prim ceo us shrub, with alternate linear coriaceous leaves; the orders. Like the Ionic, from which, indeed, it differs little, it consists of stylobate, column, and entablature. The stylobate is more ornate. The flowers in dense terminal spiked racemes, and proportions are more slender, and the individual parts more rich and elegant. The column is fluted. The capital has generally the form of an expanded calyx, and is ornamented with acanthus leaves and scrolls. The column is ten diameters in height. The abacus is square. IMG:content-0959.png:[blocks in formation] small plates of leather, worn by the Roman soldiers. *1. A kind of body armor, composed of scales or 2. Anat. & Zool.: The cutis vera, or true skin, the innermost layer of the skin in mammals. It is defended by the non-vascular cuticle. It is com. It occurs in Scotland, Norway, Saxony, Spain, . posed of interlaced connective ti ue with blood- ve els and lymphatics. Its thickne is from a light-headed. "Why you shall see an upstart cor keb rained Jacke Will beare five hundred akers on his backe." J. Taylor: Works. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0961.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0962.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0963.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act of fastening or stopping with a cork. 2. The act of blackening with a burnt cork. 3. The state of acquiring a flavor of the cork. corking-machine, s. corks into bottles. *corking-pin, s . A pin of the largest size, such as were used to fasten up a lady's hair. "As cock-chafers with corking - pin The school-boy stabs to make them spin." Lloyd: A Familiar Letter of Rhymes. *cork-ir, s . [Gael.corcar.] stones somewhat like these on which the Corkir grows; but the Corkir is white,."-Martin: W. Isl., p. 135. cork'-ling, s. [Eng. cork , and suff. -ling .] Ichthy.: A fish, Crenilabrus multi dent at us . It is found in the North temperate seas. [CRENILABEUS.] cork'-screw (ew as û), s. A screw apparatus for extracting corks from bottles. †cork'-screw (ew as û), v. t. [CORKSCREW, 8.] To direct or push forward in a wriggling fashion. "Mr. Bantam corkscrewed his way through the crowd." -Dickens. docility brings them on board a boat to its master. [PHALACROCORAX.] ""Mid stormy vapors ever driving by, Where ospreys, cormorants , and herons cry." Words worth: Descriptive Sketches. *B. As adj .: Rapacious, greedy, all-devouring. what else dear that is consumed In hot digestion of this cormorant war." IMG:content-0964.jpg:[blocks in formation] cork-ti ues, s . pl . Bot .: The vegetable ti ues of which cork is com called also the Goldfinny and the Goldsinny. [CRE- IMG:content-0965.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0966.png:[blocks in formation] cork'-, *cork'-le, a. [Eng. cork ; -y.] I. Literally : the suberous or corky layer."-R. Brown: Man- ual of Bot . (ed. 1874), p. 92. 2. Having acquired a flavor of cork; corked. *II. Figuratively : 2. Empty or light-headed, volatile, superficial. "Sic corkie gowks in rhymin' strains Maun now-a-days gae craze their brains." A. Scott: Poems (1811), p. 57. *corky-headed, *corkie-head it, a. Empty or light-headed. *corky-noddle, s. An empty-headed fellow. *cor-lew, s . [CURLEW.] "Of cranes, of pekokes, of corlewes." -Trevis a , i. 335. corm, cor-mus, s. [Gr. kormos the trunk of a tree, a log, and keirō -to cut short.] the stem of such plants, when they are not caulescent. It consists of cellular ti ue trav- ersed by bundles of ve els and pleurenchyma. It has been described as a much- shortened rhizome, consisting of a few undeveloped inter- nodes. It differs from a bulb in being solid, and from a tuber in its oval figure. Exam- ples: the so-called "root" of the Arum or that of the Crocus. IMG:content-0967.jpg:[blocks in formation] "Cornys than he gaf him thrin, The quilk of the appel tree he nam." IMG:content-0968.jpg:[blocks in formation] of which it is a translation. (1) Black Corn : A book-name for Melampyrum, IMG:content-0969.jpg:[graphic]