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.

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.

Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.

Belonging to cosmogony.

One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.

The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.

One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.

Of or pertaining to cosmography.

In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.

An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

Worship paid to the world.

A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

Of or pertaining to cosmology.

One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

The branch of science or philosophy dealing with the origin and nature of the universe as a whole. the branch of metaphysics speculating on the structure and nature of the most fundamental parts of the system of creation, such as space and time, the elements of bodies, the structure of the universe, the modifications of material things, causality, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature. the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and structure of the universe, including the evolution of its present observable structure, using the methods of observational astronomy as well as mathematical physics.

The art of measuring the world or the universe.

an astronaut; -- a term used by the Soviets and Russians.

Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

See Cosmopolitan.