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CORNUCOPIA

Volume 3 · 100 words · 1778 Edition

them rounded, others greatly compressed, and lodged in different strata of stones and clays; some again are smooth, and others ridged in different manners, their fissures and ridges being either straight, irregularly crooked, or undulated. See Snake-Stone.

Corru Cerui. See Hartshorn.or Horn of Plenty, among painters, &c. is represented under the figure of a large horn, out of which issue fruits, flowers, &c. Upon medals the cornucopia is given to all deities, genii, and heroes, to mark the felicity and abundance of all the wealth procured by the goodness of the former, or the care and valour of the latter.