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Webster 1913 Edition


Core

Core

(kōr)
,
Noun.
[F.
corps
. See
Corps
.]
A body of individuals; an assemblage.
[Obs.]
He was in a
core
of people.
Bacon.

Core

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Chore
.]
(Mining.)
A miner’s underground working time or shift.
Raymond.
☞ The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores.

Core

,
Noun.
[Heb.
kōr
: cf. Gr.
κόρος
.]
A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
Num. xi. 32 (Douay version).

Core

,
Noun.
[OF.
cor
,
coer
,
cuer
, F.
cœur
, fr. L.
cor
heart. See
Heart
.]
1.
The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds;
as, the
core
of an apple or quince
.
A fever at the
core
,
Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Byron.
2.
The center or inner part, as of an open space;
as, the
core
of a square
.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Raleigh.
4.
(Founding)
The portion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.
5.
A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
6.
(Anat.)
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
Core box
(Founding)
,
a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded.
Core print
(Founding)
,
a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.
Core dump
See
core dump
in the vocabulary.

Core

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cord
(k?rd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Coring
.]
1.
To take out the core or inward parts of;
as, to
core
an apple
.
He's like a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be
cored
out.
Marston.
2.
To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

Webster 1828 Edition


Core

CORE

,
Noun.
[L., the heart. Gr. See Class Gr.]
1.
The heart or inner part of a thing; particularly, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as the core of an apple or quince. It was formerly applied to place; as, in the core of a square.
2.
The inner part of an ulcer or boil.
3.
A body. [Not used.]
4.
A disorder of sheep, occasioned by worms in the liver.

Definition 2024


çore

çore

See also: core, Core, CORE, Coré, côre, -core, and co-r.e.

Friulian

Noun

çore f (plural çoris)

  1. crow