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 ladyship 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 Wife (1697).

[Illustration] This is of a piece with the archbishop of Granada and his secretary Gil Blas.

CORNEY (Mrs.), matron of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was born.  She is a well-to-do widow, who marries Bumble, 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 Belton), the farmer’s wife abducted by Sir Charles Courtly.—­Dibdin, The Farmer’s Wife (1789).

CORNIOLE GIOVANNI DELLE, i.e.  Giovanni of the Cornelians, the cognomen given to an engraver of these stones in the time of Lorenzo di Medici.  His most famous work, the Savonarola in the Uffoziel gallery.

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), the White Devil, the chief character in a drama by John Webster, entitled The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona (1612).

CORO’NIS, daughter of Phoroneus (3 syl.) king of Pho’cis, metamorphosed by Minerva into a crow.  CORPORAL (The Little).  General Bonaparte was so called after the battle of Lodi(1796).

CORRECTOR (Alexander the), Alexander Cruden, author of the Concordance to the Bible, for many years a corrector of the press, in London.  He believed himself divinely inspired to correct the morals and manners of the world (1701-1770).

COURROUGE’ (2 syl.), the sword of Sir Otuel, a presumptuous Saracen, nephew of Farracute (3 syl.).  Otuel was in the end converted to Christianity.

CORSAIR (The), Lord Conrad, afterwards called Lara.  Hearing that the Sultan Seyd [Seed] was about to attack the pirates, he assumed the disguise of a dervise and entered the palace, while his crew set fire to the Sultan’s fleet.  Conrad was apprehended and cast into a dungeon, but being released by Glulnare (queen of the harem), he fled with her to the Pirates’ Isle.  Here he found that Medo’ra (his heart’s darling) had died during his absence, so he left the Island with Gulnare, returned to his native land, headed a rebellion, and was shot.—­Byron, The Corsair, continued in Lara (1814).