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rnelians, 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). (This tale is based on the adventures of Lafitte, the notorious buccaneer. Lafitte was pardoned by General Jackson for services rendered to the States in 1815, during the attack of the British on New Orleans). COR'SAND, a magistrate at the examination of Dirk Hatteraick at Kippletringan.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time George II). CORSICAN GENERAL (_The_), Napoleon I., who was born in Corsica (1769-1821). COR'SINA, wife of the corsair who found Fairstar and Chery in the boat as it drifted on the sea. Being made very rich by her foster-children, Corsina brought them up as princes. Comtesse D'Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (The Princess Fairstar, 1682). CORTE'JO, a cavaliere servente, who as Byron says in _Beppo_: Coach, servants, gondola, must go to call, And carries fan and tippet,
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