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▪ I. ‖ cor1|kɔː(r)|
[Heb. kōr lit. ‘round vessel’, adapted by LXX. as κόρος, Vulgate corus, chorus, whence in Wyclif (also chore, choore) and Rhemish.]
A Hebrew and Phœnician measure of capacity, the same that was in earlier times called the homer, containing ten ephahs or baths = about 9½ bushels (liquid) or 8 bushels (dry measure).
1388Wyclif Luke xvi. 7 An hundrid coris [1382 mesuris] of whete. 1609Bible (Douay) Ezek. xlv. 11 That the bat may take the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core. 1611Bible ibid., Ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths. 1876tr. Keil's Ezek. II. 330 The cor is not mentioned in the preceding words, nor does it occur in the Mosaic law. It is another name for the homer which is met for the first time in the writings of the Captivity.
▪ II. † cor2 Obs.
Also cor-fish.
Salt cod, salt fish as distinguished from dry or stock-fish. (Cf. corved.)
(The first quot. is of doubtful meaning.)
1619B. Jonson For Honour of Wales Wks. (Rtldg.) 612/1 A salmon, cor, or chevin, Will feed you six or seven. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 210 They take nothing but small Cod, whereof the greatest they make Cor-fish, and the rest is hard dried, which we call Poore-John. Ibid. vi. 204 Of dry fish we made about forty thousand, of Cor-fish about seuen thousand..The best of this fish was sold for 5 li. the hundred.
▪ III. ‖ cor3 Mus.
[F. = horn.]
In cor anglais |kɔr ãgle|, lit. ‘English horn’: the tenor oboe; also, the name of a stop of similar tone in an organ or harmonium; tenor cor (see quots.).
1870Eng. Mech. 11 Feb. 531/1 His cor anglais stop is a 4 ft. tone. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 400 Beethoven has written a fine trio..for two oboes and cor anglais. 1928Grove's Dict. Mus. V. 305/1 Tenor cor, a brass valve instrument of tenor pitch and circular or French horn form, designed and introduced by Henry Distin about 1860. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 930/1 Tenor cor, a high-pitched instrument of horn-like character intended to take horn parts when proper horns are not available. 1961R. M. Pegge in A. Baines Mus. Instr. xii. 316 Substitutes for the French horn..have come on the market, notably the tenor cor (Amer. mellophone) in F and E♭, which is virtually a sax⁓horn shaped like a French horn but using only the lower series of harmonics.
▪ IV. cor, int.|kɔː(r)|
Vulgar corruption of God.
1931J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement v. 241 Cor!—you're in the wrong part of the theatre, boy. 1955J. Thomas No Banners xxi. 206 Cor' blimey! that was close. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 195 ‘Cor, gi 's it’, ‘Hand over’. 1961Simpson & Galton Four Hancock Scripts 16 Oh cor blimey, I don't understand you people!
▪ V. cor
obs. form of core. |