An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 185 : CORKY, _adj._ Airy, brisk. _Sir J. Sinclair._ CORMUNDUM. _To cry Cormundum_, to confes

CORKY, _adj._ Airy, brisk.

_Sir J. Sinclair._

CORMUNDUM. _To cry Cormundum_, to confess a fault.

_Kennedy._

In allusion to one of the Penitential Psalms.

CORNCRAIK, _s._ The Crake or land rail, Rallus crex, Linn.

V. ~Craik~.

_Houlate._

Probably denominated from its cry.

CORNE PIPE, _s._ A reed or whistle with a horn fixed to it by the smaller end.

CORNYKLE, _s._ A chronicle.

_Wallace._

CORP, _s._ A corpse, a dead body.

~Corps-Present~, _s._ A funeral gift to the church, for supplying any deficiency on the part of the deceased.

_Knox._

Fr. _corps_ and _present-er_, q. to present the body for interment; or Fr. _present_, a gift.

CORRACH, CORRACK, _s._ A pannier, _Ang_.

Su. G. _korg_, a pannier or basket.

CORRIE, _s._ A hollow between hills, or rather in a hill, Gael. also _corehead_, S.

_Statist. Acc._

CORS, CORSE, _s._ Market place, S.; from the _cross_ being formerly erected there.

Sw. _kors_, id.

CORS, CORSS, _s._ An animated body.

Fr. _corps_.

_Douglas._

CORSBOLLIS, _pl._ Crossbows.

_Complaynt S._

CORSES, _s. pl._ Money, from its bearing the firm of the cross.

_Dunbar._

CORSSY, _adj._ Bigbodied, corpulent.

_Douglas._

CORSYBELLY, _s._ A s.h.i.+rt for a child, open before, S. B.

_Ross._

Q. A s.h.i.+rt that is folded _across the belly_.

CORTER, _s._

1. A quarter, corr. from _quarter_, Aberd.

2. A cake, because quartered, ibid.

_Journal Lond._

CORUIE, _s._ A crooked iron for pulling down buildings.

_Hudson._

Fr. _corbeau_, "a certaine warlike instrument;" Cotgr.

CORUYN, _s._ A kind of leather.