A woman who corrects.
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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.
a steroid compound produced by the adrenal cortex, or a synthetic analog of such a compound.
Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.
a steroid compound produced by the adrenal cortex, or a synthetic analog of such a compound.
any of several steroid compounds secreted by the adrenal cortex; they are involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body.
a growth hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; it stimulates the adrenal cortex; -- called also adrenocorticotropin and abbreviated ACTH.
Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.
An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
a cobwebby remnant of the partial veil which in some mature mushrooms hang from the edges of the cap.
a large genus of rusty-spored agarics having prominent cortinae.
a steroid hormone (C21H30O5) active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism; -- called also hydrocortisone. It is used in medicine as an antiinflammatory agent
a corticosteroid hormone (C21H28O5) produced by the adrenal cortex. It is used in medicine as an antiinflammatory agent.
a very hard mineral used as an abrasive; same as corundun.
The mineral alumina (Al2O3), as found native in a crystalline state. Transparent varieties are used as gemstones, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.
Glittering in flashes; flashing.
To glitter in flashes; to flash.
A sudden flash or play of light.
See Corf.
An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
p. p. of Carve.
A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
A curvet.
Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.
See Cormorant.
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