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Corban :: Corban (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Plate :: Plate (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters..

Corbel-table :: Corbel-table (n.) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them..

Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..

Corby :: Corby (n.) A raven, crow, or chough, used as a charge..

Antiscorbutic :: Antiscorbutic (n.) A remedy for scurvy.

Corbell :: Corbell (n.) Small gabions.

Corby :: Corby (n.) The raven.

Corbiestep :: Corbiestep (n.) One of the steps in which a gable wall is often finished in place of a continuous slope; -- also called crowstep.

Corbel :: Corbel (v. t.) To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.

Corbe :: Corbe (a.) Crooked.

Fumitory :: Fumitory (n.) The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic..

Antiscorbutical :: Antiscorbutical (a.) Antiscorbutic.

Corb :: Corb (n.) An ornament in a building; a corbel.

Scorbutus :: Scorbutus (n.) Scurvy.

Corb :: Corb (n.) A basket used in coal mines, etc. see Corf..

Scorbute :: Scorbute (n.) Scurvy.

Antiscorbutic :: Antiscorbutic (a.) Counteracting scurvy.

Scorbutical :: Scorbutical (a.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms..

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