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- noun - On stage, forget ones lines or laugh uncontrollably
- the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
Corrie
- noun - a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
Corvee
- noun - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
Cosine
- noun - ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
Costae
- noun - a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
- any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)
Cotyle
- - A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.
Couche
- - Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon. (b) Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couch is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
Coudee
- - A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.
Coulee
- - A stream; (Geol.) a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a ca, which has precipitous sides.