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COR Caroli, in Astronomy, an extra-constellated star in the northern hemisphere, situated between the Coma Berenicis and Ursa Major, so called by Dr Halley in honour of King Charles.

Cor IIydrec, a fixed star of the first magnitude, in the constellation of FIydra.

Cor Leonis, in Astronomy, a fixed star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Leo.
CORADGE, a river of Syria, which runs into the Mediterranean, four miles south of Tortosa. It is supposed by Pococke to be the Kerseos of Ptolemy.
CORAH, or Koraii, a district of Hindustan, in Allahabad, called also Jehanabad, situated in the plains between the Ganges and Jumna, and between the 26th and 27th degrees of north latitude. It is in general a level country, with the exception of the high banks of the Ganges, on which the villages are usually 7 situated, surrounded by mango trees. It produces every kind of grain except rice; also excellent crops of sugar-cane, tobacco, and cotton. It has good roads and navigable rivers on its eastern and western boundaries, on which an extensive commerce is carried on; and the country has been gradually advancing in prosperity since it was ceded to the British by the nabob of Oude in 1801.

Corah, the capital of the above district, situated nearly half-way between the Ganges and the Jumna. The town is surrounded by a mud-wall with mud towers, and the houses are mostly built of brick; but most of them are constructed of mud, and have flat roofs. It has a considerable trade in grain and cotton; and is a large and flourishing town, where formerly was a mint. The travelling distance from Lucknow is 67 miles, from Agra 184, i from Delhi 301, and from Calcutta by Birbhoorn 655; miles. Long. 80.40., Ľ. Lat. 26. 6. N. There is also a village of this name in the province of Cutćh, situated about ten miles south of Luckput Bunder, on the∙road from that place to the sea-port of Mandavee. The surrounding country, which is hilly, yields large quantities of iron ore, which is smelted in the town. Long. 69. 5. E. Lat. 23. 38. N.
CORACOMANTES, in Antiquity, persons who foretold events from observations on crows or ravens.
CORALLINA. See Zoophytes, Index.
CORALLINES. See Zoophytes, Index.
CORAM, Captain Thomas, a gentleman distinguished for his humanity, was born about the year 1668, and spent the early part of his life in the station of master of a vessel trading to the colonies. He afterwards resided in the eastern part of the metropolis, among seafaring people; and business often obliging him to go early into the city, and return late, he frequently saw infants exposed in the streets, through the indigence or cruelty of their parents. This excited his compassion, and induced him to project the establishment of an hospital for foundlings; in which humane design he laboured with indefatigable diligence for seventeen years, and having, by his application, induced a number of the nobility and gentry to patronize and carry the scheme into execution, he at length obtained for it a royal charter. He was also instrumental in promoting the trade of America, by procuring a bounty upon naval stores imported from our colonies; and he had a concern in setting on foot the colonies of Georgia and Nova Scotia. His last charitable design, in which he lived to make some progress, was a scheme for uniting the North American Indians more closely to the British interest, by means of an establishment for the education of Indian girls. In short, he spent the greater part of life in labouring for the public, and experienced a fate too common with those who devote their talents to such laudable purposes; being at last indebted for subsistence to the voluntary subscriptions of some public-spirited persons, at the head of whom was Frederick, prince of Wales. Captain Coram died in 1751, and was interred at his own desire in a vault under the chapel of the Foundling Hospital.
CORAN, or Alcoran. See Alcoran.
CORBAN, in Jewish antiquity, were those offerings which had life, in opposition to the minchab, or those which had not. It is derived from the word harab, which signifies to approach, because the victims were brought to the door of the tabernacle.

Corban is also a ceremony which the Mahommedans , perform at the foot of a mountain in Arabia, near Mecca. It consists in killing a great number of sheep, and in distributing the carcasses among the poor.
CORBEIL, an arrondissement of the department of the Seine and Oise, in France. Its extent is 420 square miles; and it is divided into four communes, containing 51,750 inhabitants. The city which gives name to the circle is situated at the junction of the Essonne with the Seine, and contains 800 houses, and 3404 inhabitants, who carry on a great trade in corn, and manufacture leather and linen cloth. Long. 4. 21. Ľ. Lat. 48. 48. N.
CORBEILS, in Fortification, little baskets about a foot and a half in height, and eight inches wide at the bottom by twelve at the top. These being filled with earth, are frequently set one against another upon the parapet or elsewhere, leaving intervening spaces open, through which to fire upon the enemy under cover.
CORBET, Richard, bishop of Norwich, and a poet of some note, was born at Ewell, in Surrey, towards the latter end of the sixteenth century, and educated at Oxford, where he was esteemed one of the most celebrated wits of the university. Having entered into holy orders, he became a popular preacher, and was made chaplain to King James I. Alter receiving several preferments in the church, he was in 1629 appointed Bishop of Oxford, and in 1632 translated to the see of Norwich. He was very hospitable, [7:7:322]and a generous encourager of public designs. He died in 1635. His poems were not printed till after his death, namely, in 1648, 8vo, and in 1672, 12mo, under the title ' of Poemata Stromata. His versification is easy, but generally prosaic, and he displays more levity than exactly comports with the episcopal character; but his poems were written long before his promotion, and probably never intended for publication.
CORCULUM, a diminutive from cor, the heart, the essence of a seed, or the principle of life of the future plant, attached to and contained within the lobes.
CORCYRA, in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian Sea, opposite to 'Thesprotia, a district of Epirus, and called Scheria and Phaeacia by Homer. In Callimachus it is called Drepane, which, according to the Scholiast, was its most ancient name. It is famous for the shipwreck of Ulysses and the gardens of Alcinous. Corcyra is now Corfu, one of the Ionian Islands.

Corcyra, the chief town of the island, formerly powerful, and capable of coping with mighty states. It is situated about the middle of the eastern side of the island. It was called the Town of the Phaeacians by Homer, and is now Corfu, from the Koiuç>« of the middle ages, the name of the citadel. It was founded by a colony of Corinthians. Long. 19. 55. E. Lat. 39. 40. N.
CORD, or Chord, an assemblage of several threads of hemp, cabled or twisted together by means of a wheel. See Cordage. The word çomes from the Greek %oj⅜, which properly signifies an intestine or gut, of which cords may be made.

Cord of Wood, a certain quantity of wood for burning, so called because it was formerly measured with a cord. The dimensions of a statute cord of wood are eight feet in length, four feet in height, and four feet in breadth.

Cord Wood is new wood, and such as, when brought by water, comes on board a vessel, in opposition to that which is floated. t
CORDAGE, , a term used in general for all sorts of cord, whether small, middling, or large. See Rope-Making.
CORDATED, an appellation frequently given by naturalists to things somewhat resembling a heart.
CORDED, in Heraldry. A cross corded some authors take for a cross wound or wrenched about with cords; but others, with more probability, consider it as a cross made of two pieces of wood.
CORDELIER, a Franciscan, or religious person of the order of St Francis. The Cordeliers were clothed in thick gray cloth, with a little cowl, a chaperon, and a cloak of the same stuff, and they had a girdle of rope or cord tied with three knots; and hence the name. They are otherwise called Minor Friars, which was their original denomination. The name of Cordelier is said to have been first given them in the war of St Louis against the infidels, in which the Minor Friars having repulsed the barbarians, the king inquired their name, when it was answered, they were people cordeliez, or tied with ropes. The Cordeliers are to a man professed Scotists.
CORDEMOI, Gerald de, a philosopher and historian, born at Paris about the beginning of the seventeenth century, made himself known to Μ. Bossuet, who placed him about the dauphin in the quality of reader. He instructed that young prince with great assiduity, and in 1675 was received into the French Academy. He wrote a general history of France during the first races of the French kings,in two volumes, Paris, 1685 and 1689, folio; six discourses on the distinction between Body and Soul, Paris, 1666, 12mo; A Physical Discourse on Language, Paris, 1668,1677,12mo; Treatises on Metaphysics, History, and Politics, Paris, 1691, 12mo; and other works. The collected edition of his works, under the title of Oeuvres de Cordemoy, appeared at Paris in 1704, 4to. He died in 1684. Μ. Cordemoi followed the principles of Descartes.
CORDILLERAS, mountains of South America, otherwise called Andes.
CORDON, in fortification, a row of stones, rounded on the outside, and set between the wall of the fortress which lies aslope, and the parapet which stands perpendicular, in such a manner, that the difference may not be offensive to the eye. Hence the cordons serve only as an ornament, ranging round about the place, and being only used in fortifications of stone-work; for in those constructed of earth the void space is filled up with pointed stakes.
CORDUS, Valerius, a learned botanist, was the son of Ericius Cordus, a physician and poet of Germany. Having learned the languages, he applied himself to the study of botany, in the prosecution of which he examined the mountains of Germany, and travelled into Italy; but being wounded in the leg by the kick of a horse, he died at Rome in 1554. He wrote Remarks on Dioscorides, and other works.
CORDWAINERS, or Cordiners, the term by which the statutes denominate shoemakers. The word is formed from the French cordonnier, which Menage derives from corduan, a kind of leather brought from Cordova, of which the upper leathers of shoes were formerly made. Others derive it from corde, rope, because anciently shoes were made of cords; as they still are in some parts of Spain, under the name of alpargates. But the former etymology is better warranted.
COREA, a large peninsula of Asia, formed on one side by the Yellow Sea, and on the other by the Sea of Japan. It is situated immediately to the east of China; and its le ngth may be estimated at 400 miles, by 150 in average breadth. A great part of what was formerly supposed to be its western coast has been found, from the voyages of Captains Hall and Maxwell to those shores, to consist of an immense archipelago of small islands, the number of which can scarcely be calculated. The interior, which is known only by accounts received from China, or by those of Humel, a Dutchman, who was shipwrecked there in the middle of the seventeenth century, is said to be traversed by an extensive chain of mountains from north to south. The northern districts are cold, and produce only barley and ginseng; but the southern plains yield rice, millet, silk, and other products of China. The king of Corea is a tributary of the emperor of China, to whom he sendsan annual embassy, which is treated by the emperor of China with great haughtiness. It does not appear, however, that the emperor of China interferes in the interior regime of the kingdom. The Coreans resemble the Chinese in their manners. They follow the religion of Fo or B-uddha; and, like the Chinese, they have their men of letters, who form a class by themselves. They are of tolerable stature; but reserved and distant in their manners, and repel the advances of strangers. ∙ Captain Hall, by whom they were visited, describes them as differing from the Chinese in dress, language, and appearance, and having none of that courtesy which they experienced everywhere in China. They are, according to his account, a ruder people, of a dark copper colour, and forbidding in their countenance. Their dress is mostly a loose white frock, barely reaching to the knees, made of an extremely coarse material. They had wide trowsers of the same stuff, and sandals on their feet made of rice-straw. They appeared quite unsocial in their habits, and were extremely anxious to prevent the British from landing on their shores, or from entering any of their towns and houses. Their wretched abodes consist of walls ill constructed of canes plastered over with mud, and are built in the most confused manner. They arc destitute of neatness, order, or cleanliness, the spaces between them being choked up with piles of dirt and puddles of dirty water. They would exchange nothing with the English, despising their gold and their money; and nothing else appeared to them of any value but the looking-glasses. The capital of the country is King-ki-tao, situated nearly in the centre of the country.
COREIA, in Antiquity, a festival in honour of Proserpine, named Core, Ko^, which, in the Molossian dialect, signifies a beautiful woman.
CORELLA, a town of Spain, in the province of Navarre. It is situated on the river Alhama. It has a considerable trade in the manufacture of shoes, with the upper parts of straw and the bottoms of wood, which are very commonly worn by the poorer classes of the inhabitants. Near this place are mines of antimony, which is reduced to a state fit for consumption by means of coal, which, though not commonly extracted in Spain, owing to the prejudices of the natives against it, is here raised and used as fuel. This town contains 4000 inhabitants.
CORFAU, a village of Asia Minor, on the road from Is Nikmid to Constantinople, ten miles west of Is Nikmid.
CORFE-CASTLE, a borough town of the hundred of Hasler, in the county of Dorset, 120 miles from London. The castle from which it takes its name is one of the finest piles of ruins of ancient times. It is situated on a conical hill of near half a mile in circuit, with walls twelve feet in thickness. It was formerly a prison and a royal residence. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 741, in 1811 to 744, and in 1821 to 823.
CORGO, an island in the Persian Gulf, about two miles north of Karak. Its area is about two square miles. It is of a light sandy soil; and it abounds in water. Though not inhabited at present, it is capable of being cultivated, and produces both wheat and barley during the rainy season.
CORIA, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura. It is situated on the banks of the river Alagon, which runs into the Tagus. The plain on which it is built is beautiful and fertile, and yields abundance of wine and vinegar from its vineyards, which are very extensive. It is situated in long. 6. 16. W. and in lat. 39. 36. N. It contains an old castle, two churches, two monasteries, two hospitals, and 4500 inhabitants. It has a bishop.
CORIDOR, or Corridor, in fortification, the covertway which is formed between the fosse and palisade on the counterscarp. The word, which is derived from the Italian coridore, or the Spanish coridor i is becoming obsolete as a military term.

Coridor, in architecture, signifies a gallery or long aisle around a building, leading to several chambers, sometimes wholly inclosed, and sometimes open on one side.
CORIGLIANO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Otranto, containing 4000 inhabitants.

Corigliano, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Calabria Citeriore. It lies in the midst of a very extensive olive wood, from which oil is made, the trade in which furnishes subsistence to the 6000 inhabitants.
CORINGA, a sea-port of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Rajamundry, situated on the western side of the bay of Bengal. It is the best port on the coast of Coromandel, and affords the only smooth water on that coast in the south-west monsoon, Point Godavery projecting out to the southward, and breaking the swell from the sea. A wet dock has lately been constructed, capable of admitting a frigate. It carries on a considerable trade with Bengal and Pegu; and the principal exports are teak wood and salt to the former, and piece goods to the latter. In 1787 a dreadful storm and inundation of the sea occurred at this place, which swept away the greater part of the town, and almost the whole inhabitants; and from this calamity it has scarcely yet recovered. The French had an establishment here before any other Europeans; and some part of their factory still remains. The English took possession of the place in 1759, and established their factory five miles to the south of Coringa. Long. 82. 29. E∙ Lat. 16. 49. N.
CORINJAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, belonging to the Nagpoor rajah, forty-eight miles west by north from Nagpoor. Long. 79. 2. E. Lat. 21. 13. N.
CORINNA, a Grecian lady, celebrated for her beauty and poetic talents, was born at Tanagra, in Boeotia, near Thebes, and was the disciple of Myrtis, another Grecian lady. Her verses were so much esteemed by the Greeks, that they gave her the name of the lyric muse. She lived in the time of Pindar, about 495 years before Christ, and is said to have five times gained the prize of lyric poetry in competition with that poet; but Pausanias observes that her beauty rendered the judges partial. She composed fifty .books of epigrams and odes, of which only some few verses remain, collected by Fulvius Ursinus and Christian Wolf.
CORINTHIAN, in general, denotes any thing belonging to or connected with Corinth. Thus we say, Corinthian brass, the Corinthian order, and the like.

Corinthian Order, in Architecture. See Architecture.
CORIO, Bernardino, an historian, born of an illustrious family at Milan, in the year 1459. He was secretary of state to that duchy; and Ludovico duke of Sforza, employed him to write the history of Milan. He died in 1519. The best edition of his history is that of Milan, 1503, folio. It is printed in Italian, and is very scarce. He wrote, besides, Vitae Caesarum, and Utile Dialogo Amoroso, a poem.
CORIO, a market-town of Italy, in the province of Turin, of the kingdom of Sardinia. It is divided into five parts, which together number 5200 inhabitants.
CORIOLANUS, Caius Marcius, a celebrated Roman captain, who took Corioli, a town of the Volscians, whence he derived his surname. At last, having disgusted the people, he was banished from Rome by the tribune Decius. He went over to the Volscians, and having persuaded them to take arms against the Romans, encamped within four miles of the city. An attempt was now made to negotiate; but he would not listen to proposals of peace, till he was prevailed upon by his mother Veturia, and his wife Volumnia, who overcame his resolution with their tears, and saved Rome, but ruined Coriolanus. He was put to death by the Volscians as a traitor who had caused them to abandon their conquest; upon which the Roman ladies went into mourning, and in the place where his blood had been spilt a temple was consecrated to female fortune.
CORLEONE, a city of Italy, in the intendancy of Palermo, in the island of Sicily. It is situated on a volcanic soil, at the source of the river Belio. It contains 1808 houses, with 12,520 inhabitants, who are sedulously employed in agriculture, upon the most fertile of lands.
CORMANDEL. Sec Coromandel.
CORN, the grain or seeds of plants separated from the spica or car, and used for making bread.

There are several species of corn, such as wheat, rye, and barley, millet and rice, oats, maize, and lentils, peas, and a number of other kinds, each of which has its peculiar qualities and usefulness. Egypt was anciently the most fertile of all countries in corn. This appears both from sacred and profane history. It supplied a considerable part of the people subject to the Roman empire, and was called the dry nurse of Rome and Italy. Ceres has the credit of being the first who showed the use of corn, on which account she was placed among the gods; others attribute the honour to Triptolemus; whilst others again share it between the two, making Ceres the first discoverer, and Triptolemus the first planter and cultivator of corn. Diodorus Siculus ascribes the whole to Isis; in which, as Polydore Virgil observes, he does not differ from other authors, Isis and Ceres being in reality the same person. The Athenians pretend it was among them that the art took its rise; and the Cretans or Candiots, Sicilians, and Egyptians, also lay claim to the distinction. Some think the title of the Sicilians best supported, Sicily being the country of Ceres; and it is alleged that she did not teach the secret to the Athenians till she had first instructed her own compatriots. Others say that Ceres passed first into Attica, thence into Crete, and last of all into Sicily. Many of the learned, however, maintain that it was in Egypt that the art of cultivating corn first began; and it is certain there was corn in Egypt and the East long before the lime of Ceres. , [7:7:333]
CORNAGE, an ancient tenure, the service of which was to blow a horn when any invasion of the Scots was perceived. This tenure was very frequent in the northern counties, near the Pictish wall; but by the statute 12 Car. II. all tenures are converted into free and common soccage. An old rental calls cornage newt-geldt, or neat-geldt. Lord Coke says, in old books it is called horngeld.
CORNARISTS, in ecclesiastical history, the disciples of Theodore Cornhert, an enthusiastic secretary of the states of Holland, who wrote at the same time against the Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists. He maintained that every religious communion needed reformation; but he added, that no person had a right to engage in accomplishing it without a mission supported by miracles. He was also of opinion that a person might be a good Christian without being a member of any visible church.
CORNARIUS, or Haguenbot, John, a celebrated German physician, born at Zwickow, in Saxony. His preceptor made him change his name of Haguenbot to that of Cornarius, under which he is best known. At twenty years of age he taught grammar, and explained the Greek and Latin poets and orators to his scholars; and at twenty-three he became licentiate in medicine. He found fault with most of the remedies provided by the apothecaries; and observing that the greater part of the physicians taught their pupils only what is to be found in Avicenna, Rhasis, and other Arabian physicians, he carefully sought for the writings of the best physicians of Greece, and employed about fifteen years in translating them into Latin, especially the works of Hippocrates, Aetius, Eginetes, and part of those of Galen. Meanwhile he practised physic with reputation at Zwickow, Frankfort, Marpurg, Nord-hausen, and Jena, where he died of apoplexy in 1558, aged fifty-eight. He also wrote some medical treatises; published editions of some poems of the ancients on medicine and botany; and translated some of the works of the fathers, particularly those of Basil, and part of those of Epiphanius.