CORMALO 
 
 
sons both dead. In the mean time his 
daughter was carried off by Cormalo. 
When Oscar, son of Ossian, heard thereof, 
he vowed vengeance, went with an army to 
Lano, encountered Cormalo, and slem him. 
Then rescuing the daughter, he took her 
back to Inis-Thona, and delivered her to 
her father.-Ossian, The War of    Inis- 
Thona. 
 
  Cor'moran' (The Giant), a Cornish 
giant slain by Jack   the  Giant-killer. 
This was his first exploit, accomplished 
when he was a mere boy. Jack dug a 
deep pit, and so artfully filmed it over atop, 
that the giant fell into it, whereupon Jack 
knocked him on the head and killed him. 
  Cornavii, the   inhabitants  of Che- 
shire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwick- 
shire,  and   Worcestershire.  Drayton 
refers to them in his Polyolbion, xvi. 
(1613). 
 
  Corne'lia, wife of Titus Sempronius 
Gracchus, and mother of the two tribunes 
Tiberius and Caius. She was almost 
idolized by the Romans, who erected a 
statue in her honor, with this inscription: 
CORNELIA,  MOTHER    OF  THE  GRACCHI. 
   Clelia, Cornelia,. . and the Roman brows 
   Of Agrippina 
               Tennyson, The Princess, ii. 
 
  Cornet, a waiting-woman on Lady 
Fanciful.  She  caused   great  offence 
because she did not flatter her ladyship. 
She actually said to her, "Your lady- 
ship looks very ill this morning," which 
the French waiting-woman contradicted 
by saying, "My opinion be, matam, dat 
your latyship never look so well in all 
your life."  Lady   Fanciful  said  to 
Cornet, "Get out of the room, I can't 
endure you ;" and then turning to Mdlle, 
she added, "This wench is insufferably 
 
 
ugly. . . . Oh, by-the-by, Mdlle., you 
can take these two pair of gloves. The 
French are certainly well-mannered, and 
never flatter."-Vanbrugh, The Provoked 
W;ife (1697). 
  ** This is of a piece with the arch- 
bishop of Granada and his secretary Gil 
Blas. 
 
  Corney (Mrs.), matron of the work- 
house where Oliver Twist was born. She 
is a well-to-do widow, who marries Bum- 
ble, and reduces the pompous beadle to a 
hen-pecked husband.-C. Dickens, Oliver 
Twist, xxxvii. (1837). 
 
  Cornflower (Henry), a farmer, who 
"beneath a rough outside, possessed a 
heart which would have done honor to a 
prince." 
  Mrs. Cornflower, (by birth Emma Bel- 
ton), the farmer's wife abducted by Sir 
Charles Courtly.-Dibdin, The Farmer's 
Wift (1789). 
 
  Cornio'le  (4  syl.), the  cognomen 
given to Giovanni Bernardi, the great 
cornelian engaver, in the time of Lorenzo 
di Medici. He was called     "Giovanni 
delle Corniole" (1495-1555). 
 
  Corn-Law Rhymer (The), Ebenezer 
Elliot (1781-1849). 
 
  Cornwall     (Barry),  an   imperfect 
anagram of Bryan Waller Proctor, author 
of English Songs (1788-1874). 
 
 
  Corombona (Vittoria), 
Devil, the chief character in 
John Webster, entitled The 
or Vittoria Corombona (1612). 
 
 
the White 
a drama by 
White Devil, 
 
 
  Coro'nis, daughter    of  Phor6neus 
(3 syl.) king of Pho'cis, metamorphosed 
by Minerva into a crow. 
 
 
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