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CORKY, _adj._ Airy, brisk.
_Sir J. Sinclair._
CORMUNDUM. _To cry Cormundum_, to confess a fault.
_Kennedy._
In allusion to one of the Penitential Psalms.
CORNCRAIK, _s._ The Crake or land rail, Rallus crex, Linn.
V. ~Craik~.
_Houlate._
Probably denominated from its cry.
CORNE PIPE, _s._ A reed or whistle with a horn fixed to it by the smaller end.
CORNYKLE, _s._ A chronicle.
_Wallace._
CORP, _s._ A corpse, a dead body.
~Corps-Present~, _s._ A funeral gift to the church, for supplying any deficiency on the part of the deceased.
_Knox._
Fr. _corps_ and _present-er_, q. to present the body for interment; or Fr. _present_, a gift.
CORRACH, CORRACK, _s._ A pannier, _Ang_.
Su. G. _korg_, a pannier or basket.
CORRIE, _s._ A hollow between hills, or rather in a hill, Gael. also _corehead_, S.
_Statist. Acc._
CORS, CORSE, _s._ Market place, S.; from the _cross_ being formerly erected there.
Sw. _kors_, id.
CORS, CORSS, _s._ An animated body.
Fr. _corps_.
_Douglas._
CORSBOLLIS, _pl._ Crossbows.
_Complaynt S._
CORSES, _s. pl._ Money, from its bearing the firm of the cross.
_Dunbar._
CORSSY, _adj._ Bigbodied, corpulent.
_Douglas._
CORSYBELLY, _s._ A s.h.i.+rt for a child, open before, S. B.
_Ross._
Q. A s.h.i.+rt that is folded _across the belly_.
CORTER, _s._
1. A quarter, corr. from _quarter_, Aberd.
2. A cake, because quartered, ibid.
_Journal Lond._
CORUIE, _s._ A crooked iron for pulling down buildings.
_Hudson._
Fr. _corbeau_, "a certaine warlike instrument;" Cotgr.
CORUYN, _s._ A kind of leather.
