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English dialect in Cornwall, Southwestern England
The Cornish dialect (also known as Cornish English, Anglo-Cornish or Cornu-English) is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people. Dialectal
Cornish_dialect
a select list of Cornish dialect words in English—while some of these terms are obsolete others remain in use. Many Cornish dialect words have their origins
List_of_Cornish_dialect_words
Variety of the English language
icumen in (13th century) is a notable example of a work in Wessex dialect. The Cornish language (and Breton) descended from the ancient British language
West_Country_English
Nickname to refer to tourists who visit Cornwall
free dictionary. Emmet (alt. spellings emmit, emit) is a word in the Cornish dialect of English that is used to refer to tourists or holidaymakers coming
Emmet_(Cornish)
speaking Cornish in a dialect form at home." Ellis, P. B. (1974) The Cornish Language. London: Routledge; p. 80 Peter Berresford Ellis, The Cornish Language
Last speaker of the Cornish language
Last_speaker_of_the_Cornish_language
Celtic language native to Cornwall
Insular Celtic. Joseph Loth viewed Cornish and Breton as being two dialects of the same language, claiming that "Middle Cornish is without doubt closer to Breton
Cornish_language
Pastry filled with meat or vegetables
Oggy Oggy, Oi Oi Oi" is thought to stem from Cornish dialect "hoggan", deriving from "hogen" the Cornish word for pasty. When the pasties were ready for
Pasty
Cornwall. Writing in the Cornish dialect existed from the 19th century; in the 20th century the revival of interest in the Cornish language led eventually
Culture_of_Cornwall
Form of wrestling originating in Cornwall, England
Gouren wrestling style. It is colloquially known as "wrasslin’" in the Cornish dialect of English; historically, this usage is attested by Chaucer, Shakespeare
Cornish_wrestling
Iron-arsenic sulfide mineral
origin. It is also sometimes referred to as mundic, a word derived from Cornish dialect and which also refers to a copper ore, as well as a form of deterioration
Arsenopyrite
Children's counting-out rhyme
Origin and Wide Distribution (1888) Fred Jago The Glossary of the Cornish Dialect (1882) Nihar Ranjan Mishra, From Kamakhya, a socio-cultural study (New
Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe
Language revival project
The Cornish language revival (Cornish: dasserghyans Kernewek, lit. ''resurrection of Cornish'') is an ongoing process to revive the use of the Cornish language
Cornish_language_revival
to capture the character's child-like energy and chose to use the Cornish dialect to differentiate Tom from the series' other characters and reflect
List of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power characters
List_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Rings_of_Power_characters
Atmospheric optical phenomenon
from παρά (para, 'beside') and ἥλιος (helios, 'sun')). In the Anglo-Cornish dialect of Cornwall, United Kingdom, sun dogs are known as weather dogs (described
Sun_dog
Pseudoscientific attempts to locate underground objects
Schlag-Ruthe ('striking rod'). This was translated in the sixteenth century Cornish dialect to duschen[clarification needed] (duschan according to William Barrett)
Dowsing
Ethnic group in Cornwall, England, UK, and the worldwide Cornish diaspora
Infobox ethnic group is being considered for merging. › Cornish people or the Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group
Cornish_people
Optical phenomenon of the sky
problematic requirements would explain why the halo is very rare. In the Cornish dialect of English, a halo around the sun or the moon is called a cock's eye
Halo_(optical_phenomenon)
Grammar of the Cornish language
Cornish grammar is the grammar of the Cornish language (Kernewek or Kernowek), an insular Celtic language closely related to Breton and Welsh and, to
Cornish_grammar
Ceremonial county in England
language Modern Cornish Unified Cornish Anglo-Cornish List of linguists and writers in Cornish List of Cornish dialect words Cornish surnames Oggy Oggy
Outline_of_Cornwall
Ceremonial county in England
Cornish: Kernow [ˈkɛrnɔʊ] or [ˈkɛrnɔ]) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people
Cornwall
Berry and plant
Retrieved 2025-10-11. Phillipps, K. C. (1993). A Glossary of the Cornish Dialect. Padstow: Tabb House. p. 57. ISBN 0-907018-91-2. "Vaccinium myrtillus"
Vaccinium_myrtillus
humour and Cornish dialect. In 2002 he founded Poetry Cornwall/Bardhonyeth Kernow, now defunct. In the same year his poem "Gud News" won the Cornish Gorsedd
Les_Merton
Historical and contemporary phonology of the Cornish language
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Cornish language separated from the southwestern dialect of Common Brittonic at some point between 600 and
Cornish_phonology
Small cod or haddock used as food
type or size of fish, is first attested in 1841. It is from the Anglo-Cornish dialect word scraw: Fish are scrawed when they are prepared in a particular
Scrod
as Cornish, which is a Celtic language related to Welsh, and more closely to Breton. The Cornish dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people
English_language_in_England
Topics referred to by the same term
high performance glider Crib, a mid-morning break for a snack, in Cornish dialect Crib, alternate term for a nativity scene, a depiction of the birth
Crib
British historian and archaeologist (1928–2016)
ISBN 0-903686-28-7. 'Cornish Dialect Studies 3: Arthur Rablen's 1937 Essay'; Cornish Studies 8, 1980, pp37–47. ISBN 0-903686-32-5. Cornish Studies and Cornish Topics :
Charles_Thomas_(historian)
Variety of the revived Cornish language
others, and Anglo-Cornish dialect words of Brittonic origin. Proponents of Kernewek Kemmyn claim that the later forms of Cornish are corrupt and anglicised
Modern_Cornish
Annual festival in Mousehole, Cornwall, England
His version runs as follows: The dialect used in the words of the song translate as follows:- 'Morgy' = Morgey: Cornish 'seadog' is still the term used
Tom_Bawcock's_Eve
Female domestic worker
Archived from the original on Nov 15, 2022. OED, "Maid" In Anglo-Cornish dialect "maid" is commonly used to mean "girl"; Bal maidens were women working
Maid
Dialect of English spoken in Wales
English dialects heavily influenced by Celtic languages Bungi dialect Cornish dialect Hiberno-English Highland English (and Scottish English) Manx English
Welsh_English
Town in Cornwall, England
Camborne (Cornish: Kammbronn, meaning "crooked hill") is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England. At the 2021 census the population of the parish
Camborne
List of martial art moves
Cornish wrestling is an ancient martial art which later became the sport that is still practiced today. The following sections give a brief introduction
Cornish_wrestling_throws
text, often written in a Devon dialect, and thus known as Devon mottoware. Some items were produced in Cornish dialect, for "export" to, and sale in,
Torquay_pottery
Ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state
of Denmark. Cornish people Cornish, English (Cornish dialect) Celtic languages Christianity 100,000 Europe United Kingdom Cornwall Cornish nationalism
Stateless_nation
Extinct Brittonic language of northern England and southern Scotland
a developed medieval language, much like Welsh, Cornish or Breton". Jackson also calls it a dialect but points out that "to call it Pr[imitive] W[elsh]
Cumbric
Ethnic diaspora
The Cornish diaspora (Cornish: Keskar kernewek) consists of Cornish people and their descendants who emigrated from Cornwall, United Kingdom. The diaspora
Cornish_diaspora
Cornish type of bread
of flour and raisins is known as a fuggan or figgy hobbin. Fig is a Cornish dialect word pertaining to raisins. A Hobban, or Hoggan-bag, was the name given
Hoggan
Topics referred to by the same term
character Cakey (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), a fictional character Cakey, a Cornish dialect word "Cakey", a song from 1961 (Last Step album) This disambiguation
Cakey
Family of ray-finned fishes
word "wrasse" comes from the Cornish word wragh, a lenited form of gwragh, meaning an old woman or hag, via Cornish dialect wrath. It is related to the
Wrasse
Cornwall, England. Theories about its name are: That its name started as Cornish dialect English for "wet my throat", here used as a name for a dry field. Earlier:
Water-Ma-Trout
Village in Devon, England
A3072 within the civil parish of Holsworthy in Devon, England. In the Cornish dialect, a brandis is a three-legged stool made of iron, or a three-cornered
Brandis_Corner
Australians of Cornish heritage
English by Cornish miners. Most large towns in South Australia had newspapers at least partially in Cornish dialect. At least 23 Cornish words have made
Cornish_Australians
Component of a personal name based on the given name of one's male ancestor
occupational surnames (e.g. An Gof, [An] Gove, (Blacksmith); Helyer (Cornish dialect – possibly a slater or huntsman (helgher)). In Dutch, patronymics were
Patronymic
Cornish surnames are surnames used by Cornish people and often derived from the Cornish language such as Jago, Trelawney or Enys. Others have strong roots
Cornish_surnames
Surname list
its pronunciation in various Southern Min dialects Ching is also a Cornish surname, from the Cornish dialect form of the surname Chinn, which originated
Ching_(surname)
wrote war poetry. Many of his poems are written in the Cornish dialect. He also collected some Cornish songs. He is best known for his poem 'Travelling' which
Bernard_Moore_(poet)
eliminated the first 14 pages of the novel, where an almost impenetrable Cornish dialect hinders immediate access", the novel is ultimately a "constant delight
Laughing_Whitefish
Large precariously balanced stones
word "logan" is probably derived from the word "log", which in the Cornish dialect of English means to rock. In some parts of the United Kingdom, rocking
Rocking_stone
Cornish word relating to social activities
describe a Cornish céilidh in Newquay. Robert Morton Nance collected the noun troyl in the 1920s. He classified the word as a 'Cornish dialect survival'
Troyl
Americans of Cornish birth or descent
considered for merging. › Cornish Americans (Cornish: Amerikanyon gernewek) are Americans who describe themselves as having Cornish ancestry, an ethnic group
Cornish_Americans
Southwestern area of England
West Country has a distinctive regional English dialect and accent, and is also home to the Cornish language. The West Country is bounded by the English
West_Country
Rock formation
Killas is a Cornish mining term for metamorphic rock strata of sedimentary origin which was altered regionally by the Variscan orogeny and then locally
Killas
English dialect of northwestern England
Cumbrian dialect or Cumberland dialect is a local dialect of Northern England in decline, spoken in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the
Cumbrian_dialect
English West Country dialects (Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Somerset; also parts of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Herefordshire) Cornish English Scottish English
Languages of the United Kingdom
Languages_of_the_United_Kingdom
Celtic language spoken in France
during the Early Middle Ages, which makes Breton most closely related to Cornish, another Southwestern Brittonic language. Welsh and the extinct Cumbric
Breton_language
numerous original and selected questions and exercises Songs of the Ages Cornish Dialect and Folk Songs. London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew (1932) A Cyclopaedic
Ralph_Dunstan
American journalist
Blewett said:— "No one can hope to master Cornish humor or Cornish sentiment, to say nothing of Cornish dialect, who has not the birthright to a knowledge
Eve_Brodlique_Summers
Cornish orthographic standard
symbols, see Help:IPA. The Standard Written Form or SWF (Cornish: Furv Skrifys Savonek) of the Cornish language is an orthography standard that is designed
Standard_Written_Form
Celtic language family branch
Common Brittonic language splitting into regional dialects, eventually evolving into Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Cumbric, and possibly Pictish, which is often
Brittonic_languages
The Cornish Family by Bernard Deacon Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall (Page 48) Cornish Language, Place names in Cornwall and Cornish dialect words
Fish_and_Tin_and_Copper
Legendary creature in Cornish faerie lore
A spriggan /sprɪdʒən/ is a legendary creature from Cornish folklore. Spriggans are particularly associated with West Penwith in Cornwall. Spriggan is
Spriggan
Last known native speaker of Cornish (1692–1777)
May 1692 – 26 December 1777) was a Cornish fishwife. She is one of the last known fluent speakers of the Cornish language. She is also often credited
Dolly_Pentreath
Branch of Brittonic containing Cornish and Breton
The Southwestern Brittonic languages (Breton: Predeneg ar mervent, Cornish: Brythonek Dyghowbarthgorlewin) are the Brittonic Celtic languages spoken in
Southwestern Brittonic languages
Southwestern_Brittonic_languages
English dialect of the American Midwest
largely of Finnish, French Canadian, Cornish, Scandinavian, German or Native American descent. The North-Central dialect is so strongly influenced by those
North-Central American English
North-Central_American_English
London English Sussex dialect Surrey dialect West Country English Dorset dialect Wiltshire dialect Bristolian dialect Cornish English Welsh English Abercraf
List of Indo-European languages
List_of_Indo-European_languages
Brythonic tongues are close enough for possible derivations from Cumbric, Cornish or Breton in some cases. Beyond the acquisition of common nouns, there
List of English words of Welsh origin
List_of_English_words_of_Welsh_origin
Cornish traditional folk ballad
July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2010. Cornish Songs: Lamorna Translation of song into Cornish language Words in Cornish dialect Down to Pomona, words of the Manchester
Lamorna_(folk_song)
C. List of Cornish Christians List of Cornish cheeses List of Cornish dialect words List of Cornish engineers and inventors List of Cornish flags List
Index of Cornwall-related articles
Index_of_Cornwall-related_articles
Cornish dish made of baked fish
earliest print accounts of the pie, in William Sandys' Specimens Of Cornish Provincial Dialect (1846), describes it as being made with pilchards and leeks. It
Stargazy_pie
Twenty-third letter of the Latin alphabet
German, Dutch, Frisian, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Walloon, Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Wymysorys, Resian and Scandinavian dialects. German, Polish, Wymysorys
W
Sub-national area of England
differences from both the Midlands and the North of England; the Midlands form a dialect chain in a notable north–south divide of England. The South is generally
Southern_England
Ancient British Celtic language
Common Brittonic had diverged into the Neo-Brittonic dialects: Old Welsh primarily in Wales, Old Cornish in Cornwall, Old Breton in what is now Brittany,
Common_Brittonic
Molesworth at Pencarrow, near Bodmin. Many of his narratives were in the Cornish dialect, but he was equally good in the Devonshire, as well as in the peculiar
William_Robert_Hicks
Topics referred to by the same term
civil war in 1156 dialect (方言) — for example: "eigo no hōgen" (English dialect) Hogen - the Cornish word for pasty Japanese dialects This disambiguation
Hōgen
British writer and nautical archaeologist
the Cornish language, a nautical archaeologist, and joint founder of the Old Cornwall Society. Nance wrote many books and pamphlets on the Cornish language
Robert_Morton_Nance
Twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet
Written Form of the Cornish Language, it represents the [ɪ] and [ɪː] of Revived Middle Cornish and the [ɪ] and [iː] of Revived Late Cornish. It can also represent
Y
Branch of Brittonic containing Welsh and Cumbric
Western Brittonic languages (Welsh: Brythoneg Gorllewinol) comprise two dialects into which Common Brittonic split during the Early Middle Ages; its counterpart
Western_Brittonic_languages
English and Cornish, who are associated with Cornwall and Cornish linguists (Cornish: Rol a skriforyon Kernewek). Not all of them are native Cornish people
List_of_Cornish_writers
Earliest historical form of English language
Scotland. Old English developed from a set of Anglo-Frisian or Ingvaeonic dialects originally spoken by Germanic tribes traditionally known as the Angles
Old_English
Set of varieties of English language
to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the United Kingdom taken as a single umbrella variety
British_English
Historical novel by Winston Graham
traditional Cornish trades and leisure activities; and the use of "local dialect to indicate the speech of the lower classes of the Cornish people [to]
Ross_Poldark_(novel)
words. In Cornish, it represents /ʍ/. ⟨wr⟩ is used in English for words which formerly began /wr/, now reduced to /r/ in virtually all dialects. ⟨wu⟩ is
List_of_Latin-script_digraphs
Common speech variety of a specific population
Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of a language or dialect, particularly when perceived as having lower social status or less prestige
Vernacular
Name list
Afrikaans, Belarusian, Circassian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, English (especially in Devon dialect), Dutch, German, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian
Jan_(name)
This article is a list of languages and dialects that have no native speakers, no spoken descendants, and that diverged from their parent language in Europe
List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe
List_of_extinct_languages_and_dialects_of_Europe
Pioneering study of the Celtic languages by Edward Lhuyd
arrival in Mousehole is satirized in Alan Kent's Anglo-Cornish dialect play, Dreaming in Cornish: Still, on his head he wore his periwig, even though it
Archæologia_Britannica
Mythical creature of British folklore
dialectal records in southwest Britain, claiming instead—in view of the Cornish origin of the piskie—that the term is more Celtic in origin, though no
Pixie
Language family
Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, and the two revived languages Cornish and Manx. All are minority languages in their respective countries, though
Celtic_languages
Subfamily of Indo-European languages
(often seen as a dialect of Ukrainian) Ukrainian Podlachian (often seen as a dialect of Ukrainian) West Polesian (often seen as a dialect of Ukrainian) South
Slavic_languages
Variety of the English language
Cornish miners represented another significant wave of early immigrants, and they contributed Cornish language words, such as wheal (from Cornish hwel
South_Australian_English
The Bristolian dialect is distinctive from the accent heard in Gloucestershire (especially south of Cheltenham), for example. The Cornish accent has an
Regional_accents_of_English
Accents typical of English in the US
regions of both the South and North, and throughout the West: American dialect areas that were all uninfluenced by upper-class non-rhoticity and that
General_American_English
Cornish civil servant, trade union activist and poet
the relation of KERNEWEK to Dialect and dialect verses in anthology of Cornish Dialect edited by Les Merton 2011 "Cornish Bards of the Helston/Berdh Kernow
Mick_Paynter
Town and island in the Chesapeake Bay, United States
particularly from Cornish. Linguist David Shores has argued that there is little evidence for this claim and, while the Tangier dialect is distinctive,
Tangier,_Virginia
Former tin mine in Cornwall, England
William Pearce (1882). The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall: With an Enlarged Glossary of Cornish Provincial Words. Truro: Netherton & Worth. Cornwall
Wheal_Coates
Topics referred to by the same term
the free dictionary. Teyr can refer to: Teyr, the number 3 in Cornish Cumbrian dialect Brythonic Celtic languages used by shepherds in Northern England
Teyr
English-language dialect
Barrow-in-Furness Barrovian (or Barronese) is an accent and dialect of English found in Barrow-in-Furness and several outlying settlements in Cumbria
Barrovian
Goidelic Celtic language of the Isle of Man
a little-documented Brythonic language (i.e. related to modern Welsh, Cornish and Breton) may have been spoken on the Isle of Man before the arrival
Manx_language
Variety of Scottish English
Lowland Scots Other English dialects influenced by Celtic languages Anglo-Cornish Anglo-Manx Bungi creole Glasgow dialect Hiberno-English Welsh English
Highland_English
CORNISH DIALECT
CORNISH DIALECT
Boy/Male
Hindu
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Cornish, from Old French corneis.Americanized form of Dutch Korns.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Krishna
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : habitational name for someone from Tremellen in Cornwall.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Furness.
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon)
English (Devon) : variant of Morris 1.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : habitational name from Trewin in Cornwall.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord of mind
Surname or Lastname
Cornish
Cornish : habitational name from a minor place named Kellow, from Cornish kellow, plural of kelli ‘wood’, ‘grove’.English : habitational name from Kelloe in Durham, named from Old English celf ‘calf’ + hlÄw ‘hill’.Scottish : from the lands of Kelloe in Berwickshire, or in some cases possibly a variant of Kellogg.
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon; of Cornish origin)
English (Devon; of Cornish origin) : topographic name for someone who lived by a menhir, i.e. a tall standing stone erected in prehistoric times (Cornish men ‘stone’ + hir ‘long’).
Surname or Lastname
Cornish
Cornish : nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion, from Cornish gwnn ‘white’ + the definite article an.English : regional name for someone from Anjou, France (see Angevine).
Surname or Lastname
Cornish
Cornish : habitational name from places so named in the parishes of Zennor and St. Levan, both of which appear earlier in the form Trethyn, from Cornish tre ‘homestead’, ‘settlement’ + dyn ‘fort’.English : variant of Treece, from a form with the weak plural ending.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : from a short form of the female personal name Jennifer, from Welsh Gwenhwyfar (see Gaynor). Until the 19th century Jennifer was a characteristically Cornish name.German : of uncertain origin; possibly from a Celtic root or from a short form of Heinrich (see Henry) or Johannes (see John).
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
Cornish
Cornish : topographic name for someone who lived near a stone cross set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, Cornish crous (Latin crux, crucis). Compare Cross.English : nickname for a large or fat man, from Old French gros, ‘big’, ‘fat’ (see Gros).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : regional name for someone from the county of Cornwall, from Middle English corneys, cornysh. Not surprisingly, the surname is common in adjacent Devon, but it is also well established as far afield as Essex and Lancashire.Possibly also an Americanized spelling of German Kornisch, a nickname for a sickly or weak person, from Sorbian krne ‘weak’, ‘poor’.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : unexplained.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornish)
English (Cornish) : habitational name from a place named with Cornish lan ‘church’. In England this surname is now found chiefly in the southern counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire, and Berkshire; it has no doubt moved there from Cornwall.
CORNISH DIALECT
CORNISH DIALECT
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name of uncertain origin. There is a place so called in Strathclyde region and a Banton House in Lancashire; the present-day concentration of the surname in the Derbyshire area suggests the latter may be the more likely source. In some instances the name may have arisen from a place called Bampton, in particular, one in Cumbria, named with Old English bēam ‘trunk’, ‘beam’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
True
Boy/Male
Indian
Habit, Custom, Name of Lord Ayyappa
Girl/Female
Indian
A literary person, Cultured, Civilized
Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddess Lakshmi, Auspicious, Luster, Prosperity, Pratham, Shrestha
Girl/Female
Spanish
Named for Jesus.
Surname or Lastname
English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : perhaps a variant spelling of Werry.
Boy/Male
Irish
Rich protector.
Biblical
the hill of felicity
Girl/Female
Muslim
Praise of Allah, Hymn
CORNISH DIALECT
CORNISH DIALECT
CORNISH DIALECT
CORNISH DIALECT
CORNISH DIALECT
a.
Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).
v. t.
To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense; to furnish a Cable; to furnish the mind with ideas; to furnish one with knowledge or principles; to furnish an expedition or enterprise, a room or a house.
n.
That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.
a.
To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of color.
n.
To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.
v. t.
To furnish; to supply.
n.
Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
v. i.
To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will tarnish in a foul air.
a.
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
a.
Somewhat like horn; hard.
n.
The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.
n.
Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
n.
A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.
v. t.
To offer for use; to provide (something); to give (something); to afford; as, to furnish food to the hungry: to furnish arms for defense.
n.
A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.
n. & v.
Varnish.
n.
A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.
a.
Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.
n.
To lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.
a.
See Roynish.