Corrodibility.
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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.
a small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids.
One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.
A natural family of insects including the dobsonflies.
a plant of the genus Corydalis, with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers.
The type genus of the Corydalidae. It includes the dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus), whose aquatic larva, the hellgrammite, is used as bait in fishing.
A natural family of shrubs or small trees, used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus.
small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia.
a genus of deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs or small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae.
A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn. Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.
Corymbose.
Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.
In corymbs.
Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria.
Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryph/na. See Dolphin.
A ballet dancer.
A fish of the genus Coryph/na. See Dolphin. (2)
The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.
A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.
Nasal catarrh.
Divination by means of a suspended sieve.
A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.
The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
See Cozen.
See Cozenage.
Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
Perceiving together.
See Cozy.
to hit (someone) with a cosh or similar bludgeon, usually on the head.
To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.
One who coshers.
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
A tailor who botches his work.
Having the same signification.
One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin.
See Cozily.
Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.
Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.
an expert in the use of cosmetics.
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