n ā, f. (special use of 1 corr) name of a bird, usually translated heron, crane, occas. also stork, etc. (see Ross, Études Celt. ix 423 - 38 , Wagner, ZCP xxix 301 - 4 ): smacht peata chuirre `pet herons', Laws iv 114.10 . peta cuirre, ACL iii 309.1 . ged(-), c.¤ etc. . . . comdire la Feine, Laws v 472.30 . géd co aimsir dotha. C. co haimsir gnimraid, O'Curry 331 ( H 3.18, 182a ) (the c.¤ may have had some useful function, Plummer MS notes). cid fodera v. seoit isin cuirr so?, 1223 ( H 3.18, 490a ). ro soadsi i cuirr, LU 323 . no slocad indala suil conna roched c.¤ inna chind, LU 3261 ( SCC 5 ). c.¤ indsi G., ZCP v 24 § 7 . co tuc corra diultada ┐ doichle úad fora thech . . . arna taidled fer . . . a thechsom (Aithirne), LL 13551 `die Kraniche der Knauserigkeit', ZCP xii 399 . arm suine .i. gob cuirri (B. na f.), ACL iii 310 § 9 = ZCP xii 361 . a chacc cuirre (term of opprobrium), IT iii 102 § 189 ( Bruchst. 36 § 86 ). fri hog curri, MacCongl. 99.8 . re guth na cuirre, BS 86.19 . c.¤ aurócbála, Corm. 36.29 (perh. in this phr. of lifting engine, Plummer MS. notes). c.¤-ghlas, Eg. Gl. 124 . guth corrghlaise, SG 4.38 . corrghlas, 5.4 transl. ciconia, Plummer MS notes. amhuil sciatháin cuirre glaise, Zechariah v 9 . corghrian, Eg. Gl. 60 = heron, Levit. xi 19 . in ch.¤-grian `the stork', PH 7399 . in netaibh . . . na gc.¤ ngrian `bitterns', CCath. 4152 . ná sir clach na cuirre grían / ní bhíadh uirre achd an rath ríogh, IGT Introd. § 82 (20.34) . an ch.¤ glas ┐ an c.¤-ghrían = the stork, the heron, Levit. xi 19 = Deuteronomy xiv 18 . a ccorruib lena, Lism. L. 312.10 (see lénae). an ch.¤ mhónadh = crane, Jeremiah viii 7 . In n. loc. Loch C.¤ , BColm. 38.13 . In phrase corr margaidh market trader; vulgar, base person: corra margaidh, NT (1602) , (Acts 17.5) . corr margaidh, corr mhargaidh, Plunkett s.vv. agoraeus, foratica vel foratia . corrmarguighidh, Eg. Gl. § 168 ; 'rabble' O'R. Poems , Ériu xliii 213-14 .

Compds. With nouns: an corrcleirech ucat ` crane-cleric ' (of Colm Cille), Lism. L. 311.29 . an corr-clerech sin .i. C.C. BCC 329 , cf. mo samhlughadh re cuirr, ibid. See also 265 and LU 323 (ACC Comm.). gan cádhas do thabhairt don choirrchléireach, Keat. iii 1410 , see Stories from Keating 93 . `corr-cléirech from C.C.'s emaciated appearance', Plummer MS. notes. na corra go ccorrghaire, BS 76.21 . currach .i. corriath .i. iath na c.¤ , O'Dav. 414 . cia corrsuighi sin fuil fort? (to Colm C.), Lism. L. 312.1 . Cf. ¤chléirech above and corraigecht.