cort.

abbreviation for

1. (in prescriptions) the bark.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cort.¹

From the Latin word cortex

Example Sentences

Halgernon was a barrystir—that is, he lived in Pump Cort, Temple: a wulgar naybrood, witch praps my readers don't no.

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Though he only had a therd floar in Pump Cort, he lived as if he had the welth of Cresas.

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The student loved art, but he could not fancy such a professor as De Cort.

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Don Cort had been dozing in what passed for the club car on the Buckeye Cannonball when the train braked to a stop.

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But Don Cort, stranded on that rising town, was beginning to suspect that nothing was simple about Superior except its citizens.

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