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- Cornish - a. - Of or pertaining to Cornwall, in England.
- Cornish - n. - The dialect, or the people, of Cornwall.
- Cockle - n. - The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
- Mundic - n. - Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
- Sea swallow - - See Cornish chough, under Chough.
- Kand - n. - Fluor spar; -- so called by Cornish miners.
- Killigrew - n. - The Cornish chough. See under Chough.
- Chough - n. - A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
- Foge - n. - The Cornish name for a forge used for smelting tin.