CORY
First name CORY's origin is English. CORY means "hill: hollow". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CORY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cory.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with CORY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming CORY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CORY AS A WHOLE:
corybantes corydonNAMES RHYMING WITH CORY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ory) - Names That Ends with ory:
jory dory ivory amory emory gregory mallory rory toryRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ry) - Names That Ends with ry:
kundry tamary khairy barry avery emery perry salisbury thiery cleary ambry cherry devery hilary hillary kerry margery mary merry rosemary sherry aeary amery carbry cary conary darry dary derry ellery farry flannery gary gerry gilvarry gorry harry jeffery jeffry jerry keary larry leary montgomery mukonry murry rorry sallsbury sheary terry thierry torry zachary zackary zackery zakary dimitry stanbury kendry geary fakhry cundry khoury landry roxbury amaury henry aubry corry destry devry garryNAMES RHYMING WITH CORY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (cor) - Names That Begins with cor:
cora coral coralee coralia coralie coraline coralyn corann corazana corazon corban corben corbenic corbett corbin corbmac corby corbyn corcoran corcurachan cord cordale corday cordelia cordell cordero coreen coreene corella coretta corette corey cori coriann corianne coridan corie corin corina corineus corinna corinne corisa corissa corky corlan corlene corley corliss cormac cormack cormic cormick cornelio cornelius coronis corradeo corrado corran correen correena corren correy corri corrianna corrianne corrick corrie corrin corrina corrine corrissa cort cortez cortland cortney corvin corwan corwin corwine corwynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (co) - Names That Begins with co:
coatl coaxoch cobhan coburn coby cochava cocheta cochise cochlain cocidius coco cocytus codee codell codey codi codie codier codrinNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CORY:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':
cacey cadby cady cagney cailey cailsey caitly caley cally caly camey carey carley carly carney casey cassidy cassy cathly cathy cauley cawley cerny chaisly chancey chaney chantay chardonnay charity charley charly chassidy chauncey chauncy chelsey chelsy cheney chesley chesney chevy choncey chrissy christy cicely cicily cidney cindy clady clancy clay cluny cody colbey colby coley conley connolly conny conroy conway cony cooey cooley cooney courtenay courtnay courtney covey cranley cranly crissy cristy crosley crosly crowley culley cully curney cydney cymberly cyndy cyneley cziganyEnglish Words Rhyming CORY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CORY AS A WHOLE:
chiccory | noun (n.) See Chicory. |
chicory | noun (n.) A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive. |
noun (n.) The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee. |
corybant | noun (n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc. |
corybantiasm | noun (n.) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. |
corybantic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance. |
corymb | noun (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn. |
noun (n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit. |
corymbed | adjective (a.) Corymbose. |
corymbiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit. |
corymbose | adjective (a.) Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. |
coryphaenoid | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. |
coryphee | noun (n.) A ballet dancer. |
coryphene | noun (n.) A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2) |
corypheus | noun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. |
coryphodon | noun (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant. |
coryphodont | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon. |
coryza | noun (n.) Nasal catarrh. |
leucoryx | noun (n.) A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok. |
stercory | noun (n.) Excrement; dung. |
succory | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CORY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ory) - English Words That Ends with ory:
abbreviatory | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. |
abditory | noun (n.) A place for hiding or preserving articles of value. |
abjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing abjuration. |
absolutory | adjective (a.) Serving to absolve; absolving. |
absolvatory | adjective (a.) Conferring absolution; absolutory. |
acceleratory | adjective (a.) Accelerative. |
accessory | noun (n.) That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. |
noun (n.) Same as Accessary, n. | |
noun (n.) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. | |
adjective (a.) Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. |
acclamatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation. |
accusatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. |
additory | adjective (a.) Tending to add; making some addition. |
adhortatory | adjective (a.) Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. |
adiaphory | noun (n.) Indifference. |
adjuratory | adjective (a.) Containing an adjuration. |
adjutory | adjective (a.) Serving to help or assist; helping. |
admissory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to admission. |
admonitory | adjective (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. |
adstrictory | adjective (a.) See Astrictory. |
adulatory | adjective (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. |
advisory | adjective (a.) Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. |
advocatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an advocate. |
affirmatory | adjective (a.) Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. |
aleatory | adjective (a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. |
allegory | noun (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. |
noun (n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem. | |
noun (n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured. |
alleviatory | adjective (a.) Alleviative. |
allusory | adjective (a.) Allusive. |
amatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions. |
ambagitory | adjective (a.) Ambagious. |
ambulatory | noun (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal. | |
adjective (a.) Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to a walk. | |
adjective (a.) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator. |
amendatory | adjective (a.) Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. |
amphigory | noun (n.) A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless. |
amplificatory | adjective (a.) Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. |
annihilatory | adjective (a.) Annihilative. |
annotatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an annotator; containing annotations. |
annunciatory | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known. |
anticipatory | adjective (a.) Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. |
appellatory | adjective (a.) Containing an appeal. |
applicatory | noun (n.) That which applies. |
adjective (a.) Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. |
apprecatory | adjective (a.) Praying or wishing good. |
appreciatory | adjective (a.) Showing appreciation; appreciative; as, appreciatory commendation. |
approbatory | adjective (a.) Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory. |
aratory | adjective (a.) Contributing to tillage. |
armory | noun (n.) A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping. |
noun (n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms. | |
noun (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. | |
noun (n.) Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings. | |
noun (n.) That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor. |
aspiratory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air |
assentatory | adjective (a.) Flattering; obsequious. |
assertory | adjective (a.) Affirming; maintaining. |
asseveratory | adjective (a.) Asseverative. |
assimilatory | adjective (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs. |
astrictory | adjective (a.) Astrictive. |
auditory | noun (n.) An assembly of hearers; an audience. |
noun (n.) An auditorium. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. |
auscultatory | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to auscultation. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CORY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cor) - Words That Begins with cor:
cor | noun (n.) A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. |
cora | noun (n.) The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia to North Africa. |
coracle | noun (n.) A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt. |
coracoid | noun (n.) The coracoid bone or process. |
adjective (a.) Shaped like a crow's beak. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals. |
corage | noun (n.) See Courage |
coral | noun (n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. |
noun (n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color. | |
noun (n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. |
coraled | adjective (a.) Having coral; covered with coral. |
corallaceous | adjective (a.) Like coral, or partaking of its qualities. |
corallian | noun (n.) A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag. |
coralliferous | adjective (a.) Containing or producing coral. |
coralliform | adjective (a.) resembling coral in form. |
coralligena | noun (n. pl.) Same as Anthozoa. |
coralligenous | adjective (a.) producing coral; coralligerous; coralliferous. |
coralligerous | adjective (a.) Producing coral; coralliferous. |
corallin | noun (n.) A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic. |
coralline | noun (n.) A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches. |
noun (n.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals. | |
adjective (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone. |
corallinite | noun (n.) A fossil coralline. |
corallite | noun (n.) A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral. |
noun (n.) One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. |
coralloid | adjective (a.) Having the form of coral; branching like coral. |
coralloidal | adjective (a.) resembling coral; coralloid. |
corallum | noun (n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral. |
coralwort | noun (n.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root. |
coranach | noun (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. |
corant | noun (n.) Alt. of Coranto |
coranto | noun (n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. |
corb | noun (n.) A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf. |
noun (n.) An ornament in a building; a corbel. |
corban | noun (n.) An offering of any kind, devoted to God and therefore not to be appropriated to any other use; esp., an offering in fulfillment of a vow. |
noun (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited. |
corbe | adjective (a.) Crooked. |
corbell | noun (n.) A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel. |
noun (n.) Small gabions. |
corbel | noun (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel. |
corbie | noun (n.) Alt. of Corby |
corby | noun (n.) The raven. |
noun (n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge. |
corbiestep | noun (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep. |
corchorus | noun (n.) The common name of the Kerria Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens. |
corcle | noun (n.) Alt. of Corcule |
corcule | noun (n.) The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ. |
cord | noun (n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. |
noun (n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. | |
noun (n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal. | |
noun (n.) See Chord. | |
verb (v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment. | |
verb (v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Core |
cording | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cord |
cordage | noun (n.) Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes. |
cordal | noun (n.) Same as Cordelle. |
cordate | adjective (a.) Heart-shaped; as, a cordate leaf. |
corded | adjective (a.) Bound or fastened with cords. |
adjective (a.) Piled in a form for measurement by the cord. | |
adjective (a.) Made of cords. | |
adjective (a.) Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface. | |
adjective (a.) Bound about, or wound, with cords. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Cord |
cordelier | noun (n.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans. |
noun (n.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris. |
cordeling | adjective (a.) Twisting. |
cordelle | noun (n.) A twisted cord; a tassel. |
cordial | noun (n.) Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates. |
noun (n.) Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial. | |
noun (n.) Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur. | |
adjective (a.) Proceeding from the heart. | |
adjective (a.) Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate. | |
adjective (a.) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits. |
cordiality | noun (n.) Relation to the heart. |
noun (n.) Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness. |
cordialness | noun (n.) Cordiality. |
cordierite | noun (n.) See Iolite. |
cordoform | adjective (a.) Heart-shaped. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CORY:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'y':
cachexy | noun (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle). |
cachinnatory | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. |
cacochymy | noun (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. |
cacodoxy | noun (n.) Erroneous doctrine; heresy; heterodoxy. |
cacography | noun (n.) Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. |
cacology | noun (n.) Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words. |
cacophony | noun (n.) An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. |
noun (n.) A combination of discordant sounds. | |
noun (n.) An unhealthy state of the voice. |
cacotechny | noun (n.) A corruption or corrupt state of art. |
caddy | noun (n.) A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in. |
cadency | noun (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages. |
cadgy | adjective (a.) Cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking; also, wanton. |
caducary | adjective (a.) Relating to escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation. |
caducity | noun (n.) Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. |
cady | noun (n.) See Cadie. |
cajolery | noun (n.) A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. |
calamary | noun (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid. |
calamity | noun (n.) Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. |
noun (n.) A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery. |
calcinatory | noun (n.) A vessel used in calcination. |
calcography | noun (n.) The art of drawing with chalk. |
calculary | noun (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to calculi. |
calculatory | adjective (a.) Belonging to calculation. |
calefactory | noun (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room. |
noun (n.) A hollow sphere of metal, filled with hot water, or a chafing dish, placed on the altar in cold weather for the priest to warm his hands with. | |
adjective (a.) Making hot; producing or communicating heat. |
calendary | adjective (a.) Calendarial. |
calidity | noun (n.) Heat. |
caliginosity | noun (n.) Darkness. |
caligraphy | noun (n.) See Caligraphy. |
callidity | noun (n.) Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. |
calligraphy | noun (n.) Fair or elegant penmanship. |
callosity | noun (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction. |
calmy | noun (n.) Tranquil; peaceful; calm. |
caloricity | noun (n.) A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat necessary to life, that is, the animal heat. |
calorimetry | noun (n.) Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies. |
calumniatory | adjective (a.) Containing calumny; slanderous. |
calumny | noun (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. |
calvary | noun (n.) The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem. |
noun (n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion. | |
noun (n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary. |
cambistry | noun (n.) The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc. |
campanology | noun (n.) The art of ringing bells, or a treatise on the art. |
canary | noun (n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack. |
noun (n.) A canary bird. | |
noun (n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird. | |
noun (n.) A quick and lively dance. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds. | |
adjective (a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper. |
candidacy | noun (n.) The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship. |
candroy | noun (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing. |
candy | noun (n.) A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds. |
verb (v. t.) To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger. | |
verb (v. t.) To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup. | |
verb (v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. | |
verb (v. i.) To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time. | |
verb (v. i.) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. | |
verb (v. t.) A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flavored or colored, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc. |
cankery | adjective (a.) Like a canker; full of canker. |
adjective (a.) Surly; sore; malignant. |
cannery | noun (n.) A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on. |
cannonry | noun (n.) Cannon, collectively; artillery. |
canny | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cannei |
canonicity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon. |
canonry | noun (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon. |
canopy | noun (n.) A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. |
noun (n.) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc. | |
noun (n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a canopy. |
cantatory | adjective (a.) Containing cant or affectation; whining; singing. |
canterbury | noun (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made. |
noun (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc. |
canthoplasty | noun (n.) The operation of forming a new canthus, when one has been destroyed by injury or disease. |
canticoy | noun (n.) A social gathering; usually, one for dancing. |
canty | adjective (a.) Cheerful; sprightly; lively; merry. |
cany | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to cane or canes; abounding with canes. |
capability | noun (n.) The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. |
noun (n.) Capacity of being used or improved. |
capacity | noun (n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. |
noun (n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling. | |
noun (n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing. | |
noun (n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter. | |
noun (n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. |
caperberry | noun (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment. |
noun (n.) The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado). |
capercally | noun (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. |
capillarity | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being capillary. |
noun (n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. |
capillary | noun (n.) A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute. |
noun (n.) A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels. | |
adjective (a.) Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. |
capitulary | noun (n.) A capitular. |
noun (n.) The body of laws or statutes of a chapter, or of an ecclesiastical council. | |
noun (n.) A collection of laws or statutes, civil and ecclesiastical, esp. of the Frankish kings, in chapters or sections. | |
adjective (a.) Relating to the chapter of a cathedral; capitular. |
capnomancy | noun (n.) Divination by means of the ascent or motion of smoke. |
capsulary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous. |
captaincy | noun (n.) The rank, post, or commission of a captain. |
captainry | noun (n.) Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship. |
captivity | noun (n.) The state of being a captive or a prisoner. |
noun (n.) A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; bondage. |
caracoly | noun (n.) An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewelry is made. |
caravansary | noun (n.) A kind of inn, in the East, where caravans rest at night, being a large, rude, unfurnished building, surrounding a court. |
caraway | noun (n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative. |
noun (n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds. |
carboy | noun (n.) A large, globular glass bottle, esp. one of green glass, inclosed in basket work or in a box, for protection; -- used commonly for carrying corrosive liquids; as sulphuric acid, etc. |
carcinology | noun (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology. |
cardialgy | noun (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion. |
cardioinhibitory | adjective (a.) Checking or arresting the heart's action. |
cardiolgy | noun (n.) The science which treats of the heart and its functions. |
cardiometry | noun (n.) Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation. |
cariosity | noun (n.) Caries. |
carnality | noun (n.) The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of lust; grossness of mind. |
carnary | noun (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house. |
carney | noun (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat. |
carnivoracity | noun (n.) Greediness of appetite for flesh. |
carnosity | noun (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. |
noun (n.) Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. |
carpellary | adjective (a.) Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels. |
carpentry | noun (n.) The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings. |
noun (n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter. |
carpetway | noun (n.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. |
carphology | noun (n.) See Floccillation. |
carpology | noun (n.) That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit. |
carraway | noun (n.) See Caraway. |
carroty | adjective (a.) Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc. |
carry | noun (n.) A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage. |
verb (v. t.) To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off. | |
verb (v. t.) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child. | |
verb (v. t.) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide. | |
verb (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election. | |
verb (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture. | |
verb (v. t.) To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; -- with the reflexive pronouns. | |
verb (v. t.) To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry. | |
verb (v. i.) To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well. | |
verb (v. i.) To hold the head; -- said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck. | |
verb (v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare. |
cartography | noun (n.) The art or business of forming charts or maps. |
cartomancy | noun (n.) The art of telling fortunes with cards. |
cartulary | noun (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church. |
noun (n.) An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers. |
cartway | noun (n.) A way or road for carts. |
cassidony | noun (n.) The French lavender (Lavandula Stoechas) |
noun (n.) The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed. |
cassioberry | noun (n.) The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida. |
cassowary | noun (n.) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc. |
castaway | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked. |
noun (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. | |
adjective (a.) Of no value; rejected; useless. |
castellany | noun (n.) The lordship of a castle; the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle. |
castigatory | noun (n.) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. |
adjective (a.) Punitive in order to amendment; corrective. |
castlery | noun (n.) The government of a castle. |