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Corona  n.  (pl. L. coronae, E. coronas)  
1.
A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
2.
(Arch.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip.
3.
(Anat.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
4.
(Zool.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
5.
(Astronomy) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
6.
(Bot.)
(a)
An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
(b)
Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
7.
(Meteorol.)
(a)
A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
(b)
A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
8.
A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
9.
(Mus.) A character called the pause or hold.






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"Corona" Quotes from Famous Books



... its base, many furlongs in width; its sides blending softly with the darkness of the night, its core a roseate electrical splendor. The apparition seemed to rest on the nearest mountain southeast of the town, making a pale corona along the line of the summit. The khan was touched luminously, so that those upon the roof saw each other's faces, all ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace

... May, 1866, a great conflagration, infinitely larger than that of London or Moscow, was announced. To use the expression of a distinguished astronomer, a world was found to be on fire! A star, which till then had shone weakly and unobtrusively in the corona borealis, suddenly blazed up into a luminary of the second magnitude. In the course of three days from its discovery in this new character, by Birmingham, at Tuam, it had declined to the third or fourth order of brilliancy. In twelve days, dating from its first apparition ...
— The Case of Summerfield • William Henry Rhodes

... the shadow-path to note the short duration of totality. The object was to determine the exact point to which the shadow extended. At this same eclipse Professor Harkness shared with Professor Young of Princeton the honor of discovering the brightest line in the spectrum of the sun's corona. The year following parties were sent to the Mediterranean to observe an eclipse which occurred in December, 1870. I went to Gibraltar, although the observation of the eclipse was to me only a minor object. Some incidents ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb

... of the 19th a perfect coloured corona, three degrees in diameter, was observed encircling the moon in a sky which lit up at intervals with dancing auroral curtains. Coronae or "glories," which closely invest the luminary, are due to diffraction owing to immense ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... luxury of a good fire, which we had not done for some days. At ten P.M. the Aurora Borealis appeared very brilliant in an arch across the zenith, from north-west to south-east, which afterwards gave place to a beautiful corona borealis. ...
— Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 • John Franklin

... towns that had sheltered the "traitors." Requisitions for arms, horses, and provisions marked his path. Deserters swelled his ranks. He had enough left-overs from the evacuation to organize what in irony he called his Foreign Legion. At Acambaro a second Republican army, under General Corona—"welcomer than a stack of blues," as Boone said—more than doubled their force, and together they hastened on ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... to chase them out once more. There was an endless shuttling back and forth, with varying results, but in the end, we remained in control of the terrain. These encounters were often very fierce. In one of them, General Soult, who was General Massna's right hand man, was climbing up Monte Corona at the head of his men to retake a fort of that name, which we had lost the day before, when his knee was struck by a bullet at a moment when the enemy, who greatly outnumbered his party, were running down from the top of the mountain. It was impossible with the few troops ...
— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot



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