corbuloid (kor buloid)

and n. [ to the Corbulida. II. n. One of the Corbulidæ . corca (kôr'kas), n. [ 2. [ l. c.] An ornamental shrubby plant of Japan, Kerria Japonica, of the natural order Rosacea, with showy, usually double, yellow flowers, fre n.; pl. corbies (-biz). [A reduced form of cor- quently cultivated in gardens. bin, q. v.] A raven or crow. [Scotch.] IMG:content-1295.png:[blocks in formation] In Spain the cuerda is 8 varas, or equal to 23 English feet. At Botzen, Tyrol, the cord a is 8 feet 10 inches English measure. 5. A measure of land. In Britt any it was 73.6 English square yards.-6. Figuratively, any influence which binds, restrains, draws, etc.: a frequent use of the term in Scripture: as, the cords of the wicked (Ps. cxxix. 4); the cords of his sins (Prov. v. 22); cords of vanity (Isa. v. 18); the cords of a man - that is, the bands or influence of love (Hos. xi. 4). Lower'd softly with a threefold cord of love Down to a silent grave. Tennyson , Fair Women. 7. A strong ribbed fustian; corduroy. My short, black, closely buttoned tunic and cord riding- breeches seemed to fill them with amazement. O'Donovan, Merv, xvi. 8. In fancy weaving, the interval between two vertical lines of the design. - False vocal cords, prominent folds of mucous membrane on either side of the larynx, above the true vocal cords, inclosing the su perior thyro-arytenoid ligaments, forming the superior boundary of the opening into the ventricles of the larynx, and not directly concerned in the production of vocal sound. - Genital cord, in embryol., a structure resulting from the union of a Muller i an and a Wolffian duct in the female, as in most mammals, including the human species. Maitland cord, in weaving, a cord extending along the wooden shafts of leaves, to which the heddles are fastened with knots. E. H. Knight. Spermatic cord, in an at., the bundle of ti ues by which the testicle hangs, consisting e entially of a vas deferens or sperm-duct, the spermatic blood-ve els, nerves derived from the sympathetic, and a cremaster muscle with its ve els and nerves, bundled together with connective ti ue.- Spinal cord. See spinal. Umbilical cord, the navel string, fun is, or funicle, by which a fetus is attached to the placenta and so to the womb, consisting e entially of the umbilical blood-ve els, together with a quantity of gelatinous ti ue called the jelly of Wharton, bound up in the amniotic membrane. - Vocal cords, the free median borders of two folds of mucous membrane within the larynx, bounding the anterior two thirds of the glottis on either side. Each is formed by the free median edge of an elastic (inferior thyro-arytenoid) ligament running from the angle of the thyroid cartilage to the vocal proce of the arytenoid, and covered with thin and closely adherent mucous membrane. When they are approximated and tightened, the air forced through them from the lungs causes them to vibrate and produce vocal sound. Also called true vocal cords and inferior vocal cords. cord1 (kôrd), v. t. [ agree. For if a peyntour wolde peynte a pike With a es feet, and hedde it as an ape, It cordeth naught. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1043.