2. A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. B. Jonson.

Cor"mo*raut, a. Ravenous; voracious.

Cormorant, devouring time.

Shak.

||Cor"mus (k˘r"mŭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kormo`s the trunk of a tree (with the boughs cut off), fr. kei`rein to shear.]

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