Cored

ppl. a. [f. CORE v., sb.¹ + -ED.]

  1.  With the core taken out; as ‘a cored apple.’

  2.  Placed in or occupying the inmost part.

c. 1825.  Beddoes, Poems, 89. The cored sleep of sleep, tranquillity.

  3.  Founding. Molded with a core.

1865.  Tylor, Early Hist. Man., viii. 205. The little bronze bells … are cored castings.

  4.  [f. the sb.] Affected with ‘core’ or ‘cores’ (see CORE sb.¹ 3 c).

a. 1722.  Lisle, Husb., 395. They look on a sheep’s eye to see whether it be cored or not. Ibid. A sheep which is cored, after it has been so a year, will have a water bladder, as big as an egg, under its throat.

  Cored (herrings): see CORVED.