in medicine, whatever raises the spirits, and gives them a sudden strength and cheerfulness; as wine, spirits, the effluvia of flowers, fruit, and many other substances.

CORDON, in fortification, a row of stones, made round on the outside, and set between the wall of the fortres which lies aloft, and the parapet which stands perpendicular, after such a manner, that this difference may not be offensive to the eye; whence the cordons serve only as an ornament, ranging round about the place.