a string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.-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.-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.-any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. see under spermatic, spinal, umbilical, vocal.-see chord.-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.-to arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.-of core