horses are rendered nearly unserviceable, or absolutely ruined by this improper treatment. Matter is often formed within the heel from this sort of management, and breaks out at the coronet, frequently doing great mischief, and even rendering the horse useless. When corns have been suffered to go this length the foot must be poulticed, and all the hollow horn cut away. After the inflammation has been thus completely subdued, the sensible parts which have been laid bare may be dressed with Friars’ balsam and the tar ointment. The radical cure of corns is always practicable if taken early, but in old cases the sensible parts will always remain in a tender state, however carefully they may be treated, and will always require the defence of the bar shoe, applied as I have described. A run at grass _without shoes_ is a great relief to a horse with corns, provided the tender heel is cut down as I have described, and the heel and quarter rasped very thin. When a radical cure is attempted, this is the most likely means of effecting it.—_White._ CORNCRAKE. (_Vide_ LANDRAIL.) CORNEOUS, _a._ Horny, of a substance resembling horn. CORNET, _s._ Cornet of a horse, is the lowest part of his pastern that runs round the coffin. CORPULENT, _a._ Fleshy, bulky. CORROBORANT, _a._ Having the power to give strength. CORRODE, _v._ To eat away by degrees. CORROSION, _s._ The power of eating or wearing away by degrees. COSTIVE, _a._ Bound in the body; close, unpermeable. COSTIVENESS, _s._ The state of the body in which excretion is obstructed. COT, _s._ A small house, a hut, a bed. COTTON, _s._ The down of the cotton tree; a plant; cloth or stuff made of cotton. COUCH, _v._ To lie down in a place of repose; to lie down on the knees, as a beast, to rest; to lie down in ambush. COUCHANT, _a._ Lying down, squatting. COVE, _s._ A small creek or bay; a shelter, a cover. COVER, _v._ To overspread any thing with something else; to hide by artificial appearances; to brood on; to copulate with a female. COVER, _s._ Any thing that is laid over another; a concealment, a screen; shelter; a wood, a thicket or place planted with furze or brushwood; a breeding place for foxes. To _draw_ a cover—to search it for foxes, by sending the hounds through.