| • | A body of individuals; an assemblage. |
| • | A miner's underground working time or shift. |
| • | A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. |
| • | The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. |
| • | The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. |
| • | The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject. |
| • | The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern. |
| • | A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. |
| • | The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. |
| • | To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. |
| • | To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. |
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