Definition of Cordites

1. cordite [n] - See also: cordite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordites

cordiaminum
cordianine
cordierite
cordierites
cordiform
cordiform uterus
cordillera
cordilleran
cordilleras
cordiner
cordiners
cording
cordings
cordis
cordite
cordites (current term)
corditis
cordless
cordless phone
cordless phones
cordless telephone
cordless telephones
cordlesses
cordlessly
cordlessness
cordlike
cordobas
cordocentesis
cordon
cordon bleu

Literary usage of Cordites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1902)
"being successively in the proportions of GO, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent., and with each of these cordites I determined the following points : 1. ..."

2. Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey: Doctor of Divinity, Canon of Christ Church by Henry Parry Liddon (1893)
"... if we were united, or it tnight be carried on by the Re- cordites out of the University (which would do no harm), or it might be done by weak persons in ..."

3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1906)
"No method has hitherto been devised for the direct estimation of nitro-glycerin in cordites and allied explosives. It is customary to extract the ..."

4. The Age of the Earth and Other Geological Studies by William Johnson Sollas (1908)
"Such are the Stones Otites, or Auriculares, several sorts of cordites, which though they as exactly resemble those parts of Men, from whence the}' have ..."

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