Obs. [a. F. corme, app.:—L. cornum the cornel-cherry (see CORNEL); but in OF. the names cormier and corme were applied to the service-tree and its fruit, also called sorbe; see Littré.]
1. The fruit of the service-tree, the sorb; also the tree, Pyrus domestica (Sorbus L., Cormus Spach).
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, III. lxxxiv. 437. The apples be pale, in figure lyke the Sorb-apple or Corme.
1658. Evelyn, Fr. Gard. (1675), 268. Cormes, services, azerolls, and the like.
2. The cornel tree.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad (1677), 255. Many lusty limbs then broken are Of barky corme [II. xvi. 767 τανύφλοιον κρανειαι], broad beech, and lofty ash. Ibid., Odyss. (1677), 285. I cut up by the root, And smooth’d with iron tools a lusty corm.
