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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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ForritieanS OF à Pidce, berween che ourlide ot) which ear ur and consume excrelcent FleM, icti
roded, eacen, or disolved by any Corrosive Men-
struum or Liquor. And che Flonourable MT. BoylC
. Thac ic De turnistied wich Pores oF Cuch:
Bignels and Figure chac the Corpuscles oF the Men
struum Or Solvent may enter chem, and ver nOc be
much agitared in chem, wichour also sivins briste
Uenocks or sidkes to the Solid Parrs which consti-
cure che Pores or Caviries: For lomerimes, thougI
the Pores oF a Body may be large enoueh ro let
in some orols Corpuleles, ver il chese for wanir ol
cheir Marp P’arcicles. Blanchard.
CORROSANF Muscles, accordins to Tome;
are, chole thac help eo knir che Brows when one
trolns; buc chex scem eo be only a pare OE ehe
reckons chele Oualifications necellary to render
any Body Corrosicle
Frontal Museles chat hare their Fibres running in
chis place Comenhac obliquely
CORRDOATOR Supercilii, is by IOmE ANaTO:
mists reckoned a5 a Mulele oF che RpebrOWS, help
ins to Knir ehem Wwhen ve FrOmn; bur ic leems
ro bc onty a parr ot che Fromal Mulcles, havine
Fibres running in ehis place a licele obliquely.
GORRVPTION is che Decruction Exrincti-
om, or ac least che Cessation lor a rime, ot che pro:
per Mode ot Existence ot any Nacural Body: Por
Solidiry or Risidicy are c0o Aexible, Or are OF an)
Whenerer any Body loles all or any ot chole Acci:
incongruous Figure ro chole Pores, a Dissolurion denes which are eflencially necellary ro rhe consti
Wine is in che cold pur upon SaltoF LarEAE; Or
Wohen) Aqua Forris is pur uxon pordered sul-
Phur.
That irs consistent Corpuleles be ot such a
Bulk and Solidier a5 doch noc incapacitare chem
from beine diljoined by che Action oP che insi
nuarins C orpulcles oF che Menstruum.
THAE thC COhETOn OF The PAVES OF the Corre
dible Body be nor (0 Arict a5 ChaL they ArC nOT se
parable byche Action ol rhe Disolvent.
CORROSIO Chymica 5a Vissolurion oE mixc
Bodies by Corrosive Menstruums.
COROSIVE Mledicine, is one chac has
a porver ot Corrodins, 25 Lime, Lapis Infernalis
and orher Cauteries.
CORROSIVEHESS, is the Oualicy thac POme
Liguors which are called Menstruums, have ot
dissolrins or CorroumB BoaeS.
And che Actribures or Oualisicarions which scer
prover ro render any Liquor Corrosive, Mr. Boyle
in hiis Mechanical Original oE chis Oualier, reckon
co be such as chese:
Thac che Menstraum or Dissolvins Liquor
contist ot, or abound wich luch Parricles as are
nor r00 bis t0 per in ar che Pores or Commistures
ot rhe Body co be dissolved; nor voc (0 (mall, a
readily ro pals chrough them, as che Rays of Liehr
do chrough Glals; nor must chey be unable, by
rurins ic oF luch a kind, ic is then lait to be cor-
rupced or deltrored, and loses iis tormer Donomi-
nacion, being nor nou a Body ot che kind it Was
belore. Buc as in Generation nochine substantiat
is produced, (o here nochine substantial is lost or
destroyed, bur onty char Modificarion olthe Body
rhich was is Form, and made bur of such 2
Species.
CORTTCAL part of the Brain, is ehe outware
Substance os che Brain, Full oE Labyrinths and
Meanders in che our-side; ic is covered wich 2
chin Skin, and is oF an AM GriAy Colour, beins
25 Malpishius Caich, onty an heap ot lieile Oval
Glands, and Full oF licele Vestels; inwardly che
Medullary Substance IS neXFEO iF. TIS usC isThOUGHE
bysome cobe rhe generarins ot Animal Spiries Tron
the Biood, and hence they are conveyed by che
Medullary Substanee ro the Nerves, and distribured
chrough ehe wrhole Body: And che SCAE OF che
Memory, and Sleex is placed chere by many A.
naromilts.
CORTII, in Forrification, signisies the W aII Ox
Distance berveen the Flankes of cuvo Baltions.
COROSCATION Or Flassine, iS (by che Car-
testans) an Exhalarion spread under a Cloud
nohieh rustins donnvards, is ser on Fire and
Aachech.
CORVOS, a Southern Constellarion in the
Fleavens consistins oF 7 STarS
CoMmBOS, I Genetal, lignities che tOP O
any chins; bue amone the old VVrirers abOUL
reason ofcheir great Slendernels and Elexibilier, ro Planrs, Corrmbi vere rhe Bunches or Clusters oF l.
dil-fen ede Parrs chey invacie.
e. That thele Corpucetes De os a Shape tirtins
ry BectLs. SoMe aIIO CaIL rhC rOP OF the ScalK Ot
Spherical LIBMC O) This name Corymbus, aS ChE
TopSOF LecKS, Mons, and bF che sambueus Aqua-
L. Thac chele Parricles have also a competene sica, ecc. arid orhers contound che nord ich m
degree ot Solidiy, in order le  sene l’alcieles bella, Which expreses che Flowry Fop ot luct
of che Body eo be dissolved; and chis Solidiey dit- Planes as hare cheir Branches and Flovers spreac
Fers much from ehe BuIK OF thC Corpuscles mention-
round into rhe form of whac our Women non cal
ed inthe first Requilire; For one ching may bemuch an Vmbrella: Buc amone our Modern Boranilts 
more solid chan anocher, chouph ic have, as r0 is used FOr a CMHPONHACA CIICOUS FTOWeF, WHOIC
Bulk, che Came Dimensions. Thus the Scalk ot a Sceds are nOE Pappous, Or do nOF Ay LWay II
Plant may De as bis as a lmall stor et stcet lod
bur che lacter is much lolider chan the tormer.
Dorvri: Tuch are the Flovers et Daisses, Corn Ma
ryola a. Cla ChelCiae IhC ACaIaCE BOCaMI
Thac che Parricles oE rhe Menstruum be agile, Mr. Ray, makes ome larse Genus of PlanES eO BC
and allraneaped fOr OTIOn, in relpect ot cheir TIC as HAV d CompO DisconS FlOWeF, bur
SIape OF Their Smallne(S, Or Their trnelS rO MaV (MHOL any donny Wines eo carry oAt ctieie Sceds.
their Action Betriended by che Pressure ot che AF
molpliere, lhich mas nei o atre inem ineo ehe
Pores ot Bodies; Or by the aBIFaTION WICH CHCI
incrudu Parricles mds De tirred ro receive in
and chele he proxertys callo,
Cothderduo elanio, altel chete hre duinguites inco
the MIBAE and the LaMIadOS.
COKROSIBILTEY, is che Pover ot beins cOr.
co insinuare chemlelres more or lels inco the Com-
missures or Pores oF che Body in order 10 diHo-
a PlanE, Wisen eis lo subdirided and Adored
With FIOerS OE FrnIES ThaE IEs makes a FOnnd
ciate ses lotid Parts.
Axhereal Macter.
chole Pores by the Transcursion ot lome Subrile
BAHOVHHLH: CorBaS ElIB BS, B Cl B.
L. cocl ad aare d Laltale CoWet, ao CAC E103
Sots, Calenaula, Caltha, Flos Africanus, Chry–
sanchemum segecum, Bulbyhalmum, e tcarrmica.
Absinchium