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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cord·ite n.  Mil. A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords  (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known  as {cordite M. D.}