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Corpus

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

Corpuscle

A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

Corpuscular

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

Corrade

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

Corradial

Radiating to or from the same point.

Corradiate

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

Corradiation

A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point.

Corral

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.

Corrasion

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.

Correct

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

correcting

the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.

Correction

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

Correctional

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

Correctioner

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

Corrective

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.

Correctly

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

Correctness

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.

Corrector

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

Correctory

Containing or making correction; corrective.

Correi

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

Correlatable

Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

Correlate

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

Correlation

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.

Correlative

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

Correspond

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.

Correspondence

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

Corresponding

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

corrigenda

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

Corrigent

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

Corrigibility

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

Corrigibleness

The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.

Corrivate

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

Corroborant

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.

Corroboration

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

Corroboratory

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

Corroboree

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.

Corrode

To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Corrosion

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

Corrosive

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

Corroval

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

Corrovaline

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

Corrugant

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.

Corrugate

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.

corrugated

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

Corrugation

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

Corrugator

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

Corrugent

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

Corrupt

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

Corrupter

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

Corruptibility

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

Corruptible

That which may decay and perish; the human body.

Corruption

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

Corruptive

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

Corruptless

Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.

Corruptly

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

Corsage

The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.

Corsair

A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

Corsak

A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.

Corse

A living body or its bulk.

Corselet

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.

Corsepresent

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.

Corsica

an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France.

Corsican

of or pertaining to Corsica (definition 2).

Corsned

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.

Cortege cortege

A train of attendants; a group following and attending to some important person.

Cortes

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.

Cortex

Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

Cortical

Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

Corticifer

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

Corticiferous

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Corticiform

Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.

Corticine

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

cortico-

a combining form signifying cortex.

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