Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   3. 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.

            The knots that tangle human creeds, The wounding
            cords that bind and strain The heart until it
            bleeds.                               --Tennyson.

   4. (Anat.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord,
      esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under {Spermatic}, {Spinal},
      {Umbilical}, {Vocal}.

   5. (Mus.) See {Chord}. [Obs.]

   {Cord wood}, wood for fuel cut to the length of four feet
      (when of full measure).