Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. George Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Chloral hydrate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choral service, a service of song. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The large stony corals forming coral reefs belong to various genera of Madreporaria, and to the hydroid genus, Millepora. The red coral, used in jewelry, is the stony axis of the stem of a gorgonian (Corallium rubrum) found chiefly in the Mediterranean. The fan corals, plume corals, and sea feathers are species of Gorgoniacea, in which the axis is horny. Organ-pipe coral is formed by the genus Tubipora, an Alcyonarian, and black coral is in part the axis of species of the genus Antipathes. See Anthozoa, Madrepora. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brain coral, or
Brain stone coral. See under Brain. --
Chain coral. See under Chain. --
Coral animal (Zool.), one of the polyps by which corals are formed. They are often very erroneously called coral insects. --
Coral fish. See in the Vocabulary. --
Coral reefs (Phys. Geog.), reefs, often of great extent, made up chiefly of fragments of corals, coral sands, and the solid limestone resulting from their consolidation. They are classed as fringing reefs, when they border the land; barrier reefs, when separated from the shore by a broad belt of water; atolls, when they constitute separate islands, usually inclosing a lagoon. See Atoll. --
Coral root (Bot.), a genus (Corallorhiza) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under Coralloid. --
Coral snake. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake (Tortrix scytale). --
Coral tree (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. --
Coral wood, a hard, red cabinet wood. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. shrub (Ardisia crenata) with coral-red berries; it is found from Japan to northern India.
Syn. -- spiceberry, Ardisia crenata. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Red corallin, a red dyestuff which is obtained by treating aurin or rosolic acid with ammonia; -- called also pæonin. --
Yellow corallin. See Aurin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the individual members of a compound coral; or that part formed by a single coral animal. [ Written also corallet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pillories and other corporal infections. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seemed corporal melted
As breath into the wind. Shak.

Syn. -- Corporal, Bodily, Corporeal. Bodily is opposed to mental; as, bodily affections. Corporeal refers to the whole physical structure or nature, of the body; as, corporeal substance or frame. Corporal, as now used, refers more to punishment or some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To speak of corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily austerities; the corporeal mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons. --
Lance corporal, an assistant corporal on private's pay. Farrow. --
Ship's corporal (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the master at arms in his various duties. [ 1913 Webster ]