A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.

The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality.

In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present.

A corporal's office.

The corporal, or communion cloth.

To become incorporated.

a person who purchases or attempts to purchase a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management.

In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body.

A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.

The state of being embodied; bodily existence.

Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.

Materialism.

One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

In the body; in a bodily form or manner.

Corporeality; corporeity.

The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.

To embody; to form into a body.

St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.

The human body, whether living or dead.

A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

Very fat; obese.

In a corpulent manner.

A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles.

An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy.

A corpuscle.

Corpuscular.

To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.

Radiating to or from the same point.

To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays.

A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point.

To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.

The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.

Corrosive.

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

Capable of being corrected.

To correct.

the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.

The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.

One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.

correct or appropriate behavior.

That which has the power of correcting, altering, or counteracting what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.

In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.

The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy.

One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.

Containing or making correction; corrective.

A woman who corrects.

The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies.

Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.

mutually related.

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases.

One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing.

In a correlative relation.

Quality of being correlative.

Chiding; reproof; reproach.

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.

Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

Same as Correspondence, 3.

One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter.

In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.

Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers.

In a corresponding manner; conformably.

Corresponding; conformable; adapted.

Same as Correi.

a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections; as, an insert with addenda and corrigenda.

A fault or error to be corrected.

A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action.

Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.

To compete with; to rival.

Corivalry.

Corivalry.

To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.

The flowing of different streams into one.

Strengthening; supporting; corroborating. Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.

Corroborated.

supported or established by evidence or proof; as, corroborated testimony is especially convincing.

The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of information.

A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

See Corroboree.

To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Anything that corrodes.

To eat away by degrees; to corrode.

The quality of being corrodible.

Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

Corrodibility.

Corrodible.

The quality or state of being corrosible.

The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.

That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.

To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead.

shaped into parallel folds alternately grooved and ridged; as, the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated.

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator.

To corrupt. See Corrupt.

Corruptible.

To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.

Tending to corrupt; full of corruption.

The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness.

That which may decay and perish; the human body.

In a manner that corrupts.

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.

One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption.

Having the quality of tainting or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.

Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.

In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.

The quality of being corrupt.