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Or where's the sense direct or moral,
That teeth are pearl, or lips are coral? Prior.

For siker thy head very tottie is, So thy carbe shoulder it leans amiss. Spenser. CO'RBEILS. n. s. Little baskets used in fortification, filled with earth, and set upon the parapet, to shelter the men in firing upon the besiegers. CO'RBEL. n. s. [In architecture.] The representation of a basket, sometimes placed on the heads of the caryatides.

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about their necks, imagined to assist them in breeding teeth.

Her infant grandame's coral next it grew; The bells she gingled, and the whistle blew. Pope. CORAL-TREE. n. s. [corallodendron, Lat.] It is a native of America, and produces very beautiful scarlet flowers; but never any seeds in the European gardens. Miller. CO'RALLINE. adj. [corallinus, Lat.] Consisting of coral; approaching to coral.

At such time as the sea is agitated, it takes up into itself terrestrial matter of all kinds, and in particular the coralline matter, letting it fall again as it becomes calm. Woodward. CO'RALLINE. n. s. [from the adjective.]

Coralline is a sea plant used in medicine; but much inferiorto the coral in hardness, sometimes greenish, sometimes yellowish, often reddish, and frequently white.

Hill. In Falmouth there is a sort of sand, or rather coralline, that lies under the owse. Mortimer. CO'RALLOID. adj. [xogenolong] ReCO'RALLOIDAL.S sembling coral.

Now that plants and ligneous bodies may indurate under water, without approachment of air, we have experiment in coralline, with many coralloidal concretions. Brown.

The pentadrous, columnar, coralloid bodies, that are composed of plates set lengthways of the body, and passing from the surface to the axis of it. Woodward on Fossils.

CORA'NT. n. s. [courant, Fr.] A lofty sprightly dance.

It is harder to dance a corant well than a jigg; so in conversation, even, easy, and agreeable, more than points of wit. Temple. I would as soon believe a widow in great grief for her husband, because I saw her dance a corant about his coffin. Walsh. CO'RBAN. n. s. [p] An alms-basket; a receptacle of charity; a gift; an alms.

They think to satisfy all obligations to duty by their corban of religion. King Charles.

Corban stands for an offering or gift made to God, or his temple. The Jews sometimes swore by corban, or the gifts offered unto God. If a man made all his fortune corban, or devoted it to God, he was forbidden to use it. If all that he was to give his wife, or his father and mother, was declared corban, he was no longer permitted to allow them necessary subsistence. Even debtors were permitted to defraud their creditors, by consecrating their debt to God. Our Saviour reproaches the Jews, in the gospel, with these uncharitable and irreligious vows. By this word such persons were likewise meant, as devoted themselves to the service of God and his temple. Corban signifies also the treasury of the temple, where the offerings which were made in money were deposited. Calmet. CORBE. adj. [courbe, Fr.] Crooked.

n. s.

1. A short piece of timber sticking out six or eight inches from a wall, sometimes placed for strength under the semigirders of a platform.

2. A niche or hollow left in walls for figures or statues. Chambers. CORD. n. s. [cort, Welsh; chorda, Lat. corde, Fr.]

1. A rope; a string composed of several

strands or twists.

She let them down by a cord through the window. Ferbua. Form'd of the finest complicated thread, These num'rous cords are thro' the body spread. Blackmore. 2. The cords extended in setting up tents, furnish several metaphors in scripture.

Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; none of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shail any of the cards thereof be broken.

Isaiah.

3. A quantity of wood for fuel, supposed to be measured with a cord; a pile eight feet long, four high, and four broad.

CORD-MAKER. n. s. [cord and make.] One whose trade is to make ropes; a ropemaker.

CORD-WOOD. n. s. [cord and wood.] Wood piled up for fuel, to be sold by the cord..

To CORD. v. a. [from the noun.] To bind with ropes; to fasten with cords; to close by a bandage.

CO'RDAGE. n.s. [from cord.] A quantity of cords; the ropes of a ship.

Our cordage from her store, and cables, should be made,

Of any in that kind most fit for marine trade. Drayton. They fastened their ships, and rid at anchor with cables of iron chains, having neither canvas nor cordage. Raleigh. Spain furnished a sort of rush called spartum, useful for cordage and other parts of shipping. Arbuthnot en Coins. CO'RDED. adj. [from cord.] Made of ropes.

This night he meaneth, with a corded ladder, To climb celestial Silvia's chamber window. CORDELIER. n. s. A Franciscan friar; Shakspeare. so named from the cord which serves him for a cincture.

And who to assist but a grave cordelier! Prior. CO'RDIAL. n. s. [from cor, the heart, Latin.]

1. A medicine that increases the force of the heart, or quickens the circulation.

2. Any medicine that increases strength.

A cordial, properly speaking, is not always what increaseth the force of the heart; for, by increasing that, the animal may be weakened, as in inflammatory diseases. Whatever increaseth the natural or animal strength, the force of moving the fluids and muscles, is a cordial: these are such substances as bring the serum of the blood into the properest condition for circulation and nutrition; as broths made of animal substances, milk, ripe fruits, and whatever is endued with a wholesome but not pungent taste.

Arbuthnot on Aliments.

3. Any thing that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.

Then with some cordials seek for to appease The inward languor of my wounded heart, And then my body shall have shortly ease; But such sweet cordials pass physicians art.

Cordials of pity give me now, For I too weak for purges grow.

Spenser.

Corley. Your warrior offspring that upheld the crown, The scarlet honour of your peaceful gown, Are the most pleasing objects I can find, Charms to my sight, and cordials to my mind. Dryden.

CO'RDIAL. adj. 1. Reviving; invigorating; restorative. It is a thing I make, which hath the king Five times redeem'd from death: I do not know What is more cordial. Shakspeare's Cymbeline. He only took cordial waters, in which we infused sometimes purgatives. Wiseman. 2. Sincere; hearty; proceeding from the heart; without hypocrisy.

Doctrines are infused among christians, which are apt to obstruct or intercept the cordial superstructing of christian life of renovation, where the foundation is duly laid. Hammond.

Milton.

He, with looks of cordial love, Hung over her enamour'd. CORDIA'LITY. n. s. [from cordial.] 1. Relation to the heart.

That the antients had any such respects of cordiality, or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted. Brown.

2. Sincerity; freedom from hypocrisy. CO'RDIALLY. adv. [from cordial.] Sincerely; heartily; without hypocrisy. Where a strong inveterate love of sin has made any doctrine or proposition wholly unsuitable to the heart, no argument or demonstration, no nor miracle whatsoever, shall be able to bring the heart cordially to close with and receive it." South's Sermons. CO'RDINER. n. s. [cordonnier, Fr.] A shoemaker. It is so used in divers statutes. COʻRDON. n. s. [Fr.] In fortification, a row of stones jutting out before the rampart and the basis of the parapet.

Chambers. CORDWAIN. n. s. Cordovan leather, from Cordova in Spain. Spanish leather.

Her straight legs most bravely were embay'd In golden buskins of costly cordwain. Fairy Queen CORDWA'INER. n. s. [uncertain whether from Cordovan, Spanish leather, or from cord, of which shoes were formerly made, and are now used in the Spanish West Indies. Trevoux.] A shoemaker. CORE. n. s. [caur, Fr. cor, Lat.] 1. The heart.

2.

Give me that man

That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core; ay, in my heart of heart.
Shakspeare's Hamlet.
The inner part of any thing.
In the core of the square she raised a tower of
a furlong high. Raleigh's History of the World.
Dig out the cores below the surface.Mortimer.
They wasteful eat,

Through buds and bark, into the blacken'd core.
Thomson.

3. The inner part of a fruit which contains the kernels.

It is reported that trees watered perpetually with warm water, will make a fruit with little Bacon. 4. The matter contained in a bile or sore. Launce the sore

or no core or stone.

And cut the head; for, till the core be found, The secret vice is fed, and gathers ground. Dryden's Virgil. 5. It is used by Bacon for a body or collection. [from corps, Fr. pronounced core.]

He was more doubtful of the raising of forces to resist the rebels, than of the resistance itself; for that he was in a core of people whose affec tions he suspected. "Bacon's Henry VII. CORIA'CEOUS. adj. [coriaceus, Lat.] 1. Consisting of leather.

2. Of a substance resembling leather.

A stronger projectile motion of the blood must occasion greater secretions and loss of liquid parts, and from thence perhaps spissitude and coriaceous concretions. Arbuthnot on Aliments. CORIANDER. n. s. [coriandrum, Latin.] A plant.

The species are, 1. Greater coriander. 2. Smaller testiculated coriander. The first is cultivated for the seeds, which are used in medicine the second sort is seldom found. Miller Israel called the name thereof manna:_ and it was, like coriander seed, white. Exodus. CO'RINTH. n. s. [from the city of that name in Greece.] A small fruit, commonly called currant.

Now will the corinths, now the rasps, supply Delicious draughts.

Philips The chief riches of Zant consisteth in corinths, which the inhabitants have in great quantities. Broome.

CORINTHIAN Order.

This is generally reckoned the fourth, but by some the fifth, of the five orders of architecture; and is the most noble, rich, and delicate, of them all. Vitruvius ascribes it to Callimachus, a Corinthian sculptor, who is said to have taken the hint by passing by the tomb of a young lady, over which a basket with some of her playthings had been placed by her nurse, and covered with a tile; the whole having been placed over a root of acanthus. As it sprung up, the branches encompassed the basket; but arriving at the tile, bent downwards under the corners of it, forming a kind of volute. Hence Callimachus imitated the basket by the vase of his capital, the tile in the abacus, and the leaves in the volute. Villalpandus imagines the Corinthian capital to have taken its original from an order in the temple of Solomon, whose leaves were those of the palmtree. The capital is adorned with two rows of leaves, between which little stalks arise, of which the sixteen volutes are formed which support the abacus. Harris.

Behind these figures are large columns of the Corinthian order, adorned with fruit and flowers. Dryden.

CORK. n. s. [cortex, Lat. korck, Dutch. Hie dies, anno redeunte, festus Corticem astrictum pice dimovebit ; Amphora fumum bibere institutæ Consule Tullo. Hor.] 1. A glandiferous tree, in all respects like the ilex, excepting the bark, which, in the cork tree, is thick, spongy, and soft. Miller.

The cork tree grows near the Pyrenean hills, and in several parts of Italy, and the north of New England. Mortimer.

2. The bark of the cork tree used for stopples, or burnt into Spanish black. It is taken off without injury to the tree. 3. A piece of cork cut for the stopple of a bottle or barrel.

I pr'ythee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. Shakspeare. Be sure, nay very sure, thy cork be good; Then future ages shall of Peggy tell,

That nymph that brew'd and bottled ale so well. King. 1. Nor stop, for one bad cork, his butler's pay." Pope. CORKING-PIN. n. s. A pin of the largest size.

When you put a clean pillow-case on your lady's pillow, be sure to fasten it well with three corking-pins, that it may not fall off in the night. Swift.

CO'RKY. adj. [from cork.] Consisting of cork resembling cork. Bind fast his corky arms. Shakspeare. CO'RMORANT. n. ́s. [cormorant, Fr. from corvus marinus, Latin.].

1. A bird that preys upon fish. It is nearly of the bigness of a capon, with a wry bill and broad feet, black on his body, but greenish about his wings. He is eminently greedy and rapacious.

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs ;
When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
Th' endeavour of this present breath may buy
That honour which shall 'bate his scythe's keen
edge.
Shakspeare.
Those called birds of prey, as the eagle, hawk,
puttock, and cormorant.
Peacham.
Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life
Sat like a cormorant. Milton's Par. Lost.

Not far from thence is seen a lake, the haunt Of coots, and of the fishing cormorant. Dryden. 2. A glutton. CORN. n. s. [corn, Sax. korn, Germ. It is found in all the Teutonick dialects; as, in an old Runick rhyme,

Hagul er kaldastur corna.
Hail is the coldest grain.]

1. The seeds which grow in ears, not in pods; such as are made into bread.

Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone." John.

The people cry you mock'd them; and, of late, When corn was given them gratis, you repin'd. Shakspeare. 2. Grain yet unreaped, standing in the field 'upon its stalk.

All the idle weeds that grow

In our sustaining corn.
Shakspeare.
Landing his men, he burnt the corn all there-
abouts, which was now almost ripe. Knollese

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2. To granulate.

CORN-FIELD. n. s. A field where corn is growing.

It was a lover and his lass, That o'er the green corn-field did pass. Shaksp. You may soon enjoy the gallant sights of armies, encampments, and standards waving over your brother's corn-fields. Pope CORN-FLAG. n. s. [corn and flag.] A plant. Miller enumerates eleven species of this plant; some with red flowers, and some with white. CORN-FLOOR. n. s. The floor where com is stored.

Thou hast loved a reward upon every cern-floor. CORN-FLOWER... s. [from corn and Aosver.]

There be certain corn-flowers, which come seldom or never in other places, unless they be set, but only amongst corn; as the bluebottle, a kind of yellow marygold, wild poppy, and fur mitory. Bacon's Natural History Corn-flowers are of many sorts: some of them flower in June and July, and others in August. The seeds should be sown in March: they reMortimer. quire a good soil. CORN-LAND. n. s. [corn and land.] Land appropriated to the production of grain. Pastures and meadows are of such advantage to husbandry, that many prefer them to ars Mortimer's Husbandry, CORN-MASTER. n. J. [corn and master. One that cultivates corn for sale. Not in use.

lands.

I knew a nobleman in England, that had the greatest audits of any man in my time; a grest grasier, a great sheep-master, a great timber man, a great collier, a great corn-master, and a great lead-man.

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CORN-MARIGOLD. R. s. [from corn and
marigold.] A flower.

CORN-MILL. 7. s. [corn and mill.] A mill
to grind corn into meal.

Save the more laborious work of beating of
hemp, by making the axle-tree of the corn-mills
longer than ordinary, and placing pins in it to
Mortimer.
raise large hammers.
CORN-PIPE, n. s. [from corn and pipe.]
A pipe made by slitting the joint of a
green stalk of corn.

Now the shrill corn-pipes, echoing loud to arms,
To rank and file reduce the straggling swarms.
Tickel.
CORN-ROCKET... [from corn and roc-
ket.] A plant.

CORN-KOSE. R. s. A species of poppy.
CORN-SALLAD. . . [from corn and sal-
lad.] _An herb, whose top-leaves are a
Mortimer.
sallet of themselves.
CO'RNAGE, n. s. [from corne, Fr. cornu,
Lat.] A tenure which obliges the land-
holder to give notice of an invasion by
blowing a horn.

CO'RNCHANDLER. n. J. [corn and chand-
ler.] One that retails corn.
CO'RNCUTTER. n. s. [from corn and cut.]
A man whose profession is to extirpate
corus from the foot.

The nail was not loose, nor did seem to press
into the flesh; for there had been a corncutter,
Wiseman.
who had cleared it.

I have known a corncutter, who, with a right education, would have been an excellent physiSpectator. n.s. [cornus, Lat.]

cian. CO'RNEL.

CORNELIAN-TREE.

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The cornel-tree beareth the fruit commonly called the cornel or cornelian cherry, as well from the name of the tree, as the cornelian stone, the colour whereof it somewhat represents. The wood is very durable, and useful for wheel-work.

Mortimer.

Take a service-tree, or a cornelian-tree, or an elder-tree, which we know have fruits of harsh and binding juice, and set them near a vine or fig-tree, and see whether the grapes or figs will not be the sweeter.

Bacon.

A huntress issuing from the wood,
Reclining on her cornel spear she stood. Dryd.
Mean time the goddess, in disdain, bestows
The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows
The fruits of cornel, as they feast around. Pope.
On wildings and on strawberries they fed;"
Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest,
And falling acorns furnish'd out a feast. Dryd.
CORNELIAN-STONE. See CARNELIAN.
A kind of
CO'RNEMUSE. n. s. [Fr.]
rustick flute.
CO'RNEOUS. adj. [corneus, Lat.] Horny;
of a substance resembling horn.

Such as have corneous or horny eyes, as lob-
sters, and crustaceous animals, are generally
dimsighted.

Brown.

The various submarine shrubs are of a corne
ous or ligneous constitution, consisting chiefly of
Woodward.
a fibrous matter.
CO'RNER. 22. s. [cornel, Welsh; cornier,
French.]

1. An angle; a place enclosed by two
walls or lines which would intersect
each other, if drawn beyond the point
where they meet.

2. A secret or remote place,

There's nothing I have done yet, o' my con-
science,

Deserves a corner. Shakspeare's Henry VIII.

It is better to dwell in a corner of a house-top, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. Proverbs.

I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in Acts.

à corner.

All the inhabitants, in every corner of the
island, have been absolutely reduced under his
Davies.
immediate subjection.
Those vices, that lurk in the secret corners of
Addison.
the soul.
3. The extremities; the utmost limit:
thus every corner is the whole or every
part.

Might I but through my prison, once a day,
Behold this maid, all corners else o' th' earth
Let liberty make use of. Shakspeare's Tempest.
I turn'd, and tried each corner of my bed,
To find if sleep were there; but sleep was lost.
Dryden.
CORNER-STONE. n. s. {corner and stone.]
The stone that unites the two walls at
the corner; the principal stone.
See you yond' coin o' th' capitol, yond' corner-
Shakspeare.
stone?
Horvel.

A mason was fitting a corner-stone.
CORNER-TEETH of a Horse, are the four
teeth between the middling teeth and
the tushes; two above and two below,
on each side of the jaw, which shoot
when the horse is four years and a half
Farrier's Dict.
old.
CORNERWISE. adv. [corner and wise.]
Diagonally; with the corner in front.
CO'RNET. n. s. [cornette, Fr.]

I. A musical instrument blown with the mouth: used andently in war, proba bly in the cavalry.

Israel played before the Lord on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets.

2 Samuel. Other wind instruments require a forcible breath; as trumpets, cornets, and hunters horns. Bacon's Natural History.

Cornets and trumpets cannot reach his ear;' Under an actor's nose, he 's never hear. Dryd. 2. A company or troop of horse; perhaps as many as had a cornet belonging to them. This sense is now disused.

These noblemen were appointed, with some cornets of horse and bands of foot, to put themselves beyond the hill where the rebels were enBacon, camped.

Seventy great horses lay dead in the field, and Hayward. one cornet was taken. They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive Clarendon. them.

3. The officer that bears the standard of a troop.

4.

CORNET of a Horse, is the lowest part of his pastern, that runs round the cof fin, and is distinguished by the hair that joins and covers the upper part of the Farrier's Dict. hoof.

5. A scarf anciently worn by doctors.

6. A headdress.

Dict.

Dict.

7.

CORNET of Paper, is described by Skinner to be a cap of paper, made by retailers for small wares.

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CO'RNETTER. n. s. [from cornet.] A blower of the cornet.

So great was the rabble of trumpetters, cornetters, and other musicians, that even Claudius himself might have heard them. Hakerill. CO'RNICE. n. s. [corniche, French.] The highest projection of a wall or column.

The cornice of the Palazzo Farnese, which makes so beautiful an effect below, when viewed more nearly, will be found not to have its just Dryden's Dufresnoy.

measures.

The walls were massy brass, the cornice high Blue metals crown'd, in colours of the sky. Pope's Odyssey. CORNICE Ring. [In gunnery.] The next ring from the muzzle backwards.

Chambers. CO'RNICLE. n. s. [from cornu, Lat.] A little horn.

There will be found, on either side, two black filaments, or membranous strings, which extend unto the long and shorter cornicle, upon protrusion. Brown's Vulgar Errours. CORNICULATE. adj. [from cornu, Lat.] A term in botany.

Corniculate plants are such as produce many distinct and horned pods; and corniculate flowers are such hollow flowers as have on their upper part a kind of spur, or little horn. Chambers. CORNIFICK. adj. [from cornu and facio, Latin.] Productive of horns; making horns. Dict. CORNI'GEROUS. adj. [corniger, Latin.] Horned; having horns.

Nature, in other cornigerous animals, hath placed the horns higher, and reclining; as in bucks. Brown's Vulgar Errours. CORNUCO'PLE. n. s. [Lat.] The horn of plenty; a horn topped with fruits and flowers in the hands of a goddess. To CORNU'TE. v. a. [cornutus, Lat.] To bestow horns; to cuckold. CORNU'TED. adj. [cornutus, Lat.] Grafted with horns; horned; cuckolded. CORNUTO. n. s. [from cornutus, Latin.] A man horned; a cuckold.

The peaking cornuto, her husband, dwelling in a continual larum of jealousy. Shakspeare. CO'RNY. adj. [from cornu, horn, Lat.] 1. Strong or hard like horn; horny. Up stood the corny reed,

Embattled in her field. Milton's Paradise Lost. 2. [from corn.] Producing grain or corn. Tell me why the ant,

'Midst summer's plenty, thinks of winter's want; By constant journeys careful to prepare Her stores, and bringing home the corny ear.

3. Containing corn.

Prier.

They lodge in habitations not their own, By their high crops and corny gizzards known. Dryden. CO'ROLLARY. n. s. [corollarium, Latin; from corolla; finis coronat opus: corollair, Fr.]

1. The conclusion: a corollary seems to be a conclusion, whether following from the premises necessarily or not.

Now since we have considered the malignity of this sin of detraction, it is but a natural corollary, that we enforce our vigilance against it. Government of the Tongue. As a corollary to this preface, in which I have

done justice to others, I owe somewhat to my. self. Dryden's Fables, Prefact. 2. Surplus.

Bring a corollary, Rather than want. Shakspeare's Tempest. CORONA. n. s. [Lat.] A large flat member of the cornice, só called because it crowns the entablature and the whole order. It is called by workmen the drip. Chambers.

In a cornice the gola or cymatium of the corona, the coping, the modillions or dentelli, make a noble shew by their graceful projections. Co'RONAL, n. s. [corona, Lat.] A crown; Spectator. a garland.

Crown ye god Bacchus with a coronal, And Hymen also crown with wreaths of vine. Spenser. CO'RONAL. adj. Belonging to the top of the head.

A man of about forty-five years of age came to me, with a round tubercle between the sagittal and coronal suture. Wiseman.

CORONARY. adj. [coronarius, Lat.] 1. Relating to a crown; seated on the top of the head like a crown.

The basilisk of older times was a proper kind of serpent, not above three palms long, as some account; and differenced from other serpents by advancing his head, and some white marks or coronary spots upon the crown. Brows. 2. It is applied in anatomy to arteries which are fancied to encompass the heart in the manner of a garland.

The substance of the heart itself is most certainly made and nourished by the blood, which is conveyed to it by the coronary arteries. Bentley. CORONATION. n. s. [from corona, Lat.] 1. The act or solemnity of crowning a king.

Fortune smiling at her work therein, that a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of Sidney.

coronation.

Willingly I came to Denmark,
To shew my duty in your coronation. Shaksp.
A cough, sir, which I caught with ringing in
the king's affairs upon his coronation day. Sbakıp.

Now empress fame had publish'd the renown Of Sh's coronation through the town. Dryd. 2. The pomp or assembly present at a coronation.

In pensive thought recal the fancied scene. See coronations rise on every green. Popt. CO'RONER. n. s. [from corona.] An officer whose duty is to inquire, on the part of the king, how any violent death was occasioned; for which purpose a jury is impannelled.

Go thou and seek the coroner, and let him sito' my uncle; for he 's in the third degree of drink; he's drowned, Shakspeare. CO'RONET. n. s. [coronetta, Ital. the dimi nutive of corona, a crown.] 1. An inferiour crown worn by the nobi lity. The coronet of a duke is adorned with strawberry leaves; that of a marquis has leaves with pearls interposed; that of an earl raises the pearls above the leaves; that of a viscount is sur rounded with only pearls; that of a baron has only four pearls.

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