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2. A solid measure, equivalent to 128
cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet
long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured
with a cord or line.

3. Fig.: Any moral influence by which
persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an
enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords
of sin; the cords of vanity.

The knots that tangle human creeds,

The wounding cords that bind and strain

The heart until it bleeds.

Tennyson.

4. (Anat.) Any structure having
the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under
Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical,
Vocal.

5. (Mus.) See Chord.
[Obs.]

Cord wood, wood for fuel cut to the
length of four feet (when of full measure).

Cord (kôrd), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Corded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Cording.] 1. To bind
with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to
ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.


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