An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy.
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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.
A co-religion/ist.
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.
A woman who corrupts.
The corsak.
The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.
A living body or its bulk.
Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
To inclose in corsets.
an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France.
of or pertaining to Corsica (definition 2).
A corselet.
The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt.
A train of attendants; a group following and attending to some important person.
The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.
Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.
Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.
Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.
Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.
Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.
A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.
a combining form signifying cortex.
of or relating to the cortex and the hypothalamus.
passing toward the cerebral cortex; -- of nerves and nerve impulses.
directed from the cerebral cortex; -- of nerves and nerve impulses.
same as corticoefferent; as, corticofugal discharges.
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