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

Corbel :: Corbel (n.) A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture..

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..

Corbell :: Corbell (n.) Small gabions.

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

Antiscorbutic :: Antiscorbutic (a.) Counteracting scurvy.

Corbies :: Corbies (pl. ) of Corb.

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

Jutting :: "Jutting (a.) Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc..

Corby :: Corby (n.) The raven.

Scorbutus :: Scorbutus (n.) Scurvy.

Cress :: Cress (n.) A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic..

Corbell :: Corbell (n.) A sculptured basket of flowers; a corbel.

Corbie :: Corbie (n.) Alt. of Corb.

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

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

Antiscorbutical :: Antiscorbutical (a.) Antiscorbutic.

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..

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

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..

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