| Cord | n. [ F. corde, L. chorda catgut, chord, cord, fr. Gr. chordh`; cf. chola`des intestines, L. haruspex soothsayer (inspector of entrails), Icel. görn, pl. garnir gut, and E. yarn. Cf. Chord, Yarn. ] 1. A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] The knots that tangle human creeds,
The wounding cords that bind and strain
The heart until it bleeds. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Anat.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. (Mus.) See Chord. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Cord wood, wood for fuel cut to the length of four feet (when of full measure). [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Corded | a. 1. Bound or fastened with cords. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Piled in a form for measurement by the cord. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Made of cords. [ Obs. ] “A corded ladder.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. Striped or ribbed with cords; as, cloth with a corded surface. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. (Her.) Bound about, or wound, with cords. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Cordelier | n. [ F., fr. OF. cordel, F. cordeau, dim. fr. corde string, rope. See Cord. ] 1. (Eccl. Hist.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Fr. Hist.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
