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Cord

CORD, noun [Latin Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]

1. A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Rahab let down the spies by a cord through the window. Joshua 2:15.

2. A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line. The cord is a pile containing 128 cubic feet; or a pile eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad.

3. In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalms 129:4.

The cords of sin are bad habits, or the consequences of sin. Proverbs 5:22.

The cords of a man are the fair, gentle or natural means of alluring men to obedience. Hosea 11.

The cords of vanity are worldly vanities and pleasures, profit or preferment; or vain and deceitful arguments and pretenses, which draw men to sin. Isaiah 5:18.

To stretch a line or cord about a city, is to level it, or utterly to destroy it. Lamentations 2:1.

The cords of a tent denote stability. To loosen or break the cords, is to weaken or destroy; to lengthen the cords, is to enlarge. Job 30:11. Isaiah 5:184. Jeremiah 10:20.

CORD, verb transitive

1. To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.

2. To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord

Cordage

CORDAGE, noun All sorts of cords or ropes, used in the running rigging of a ship, or kept in reserve to supply the place of that which may be rendered unserviceable. In a more general sense, the word includes all ropes and lines used on board of ships.

Cordate

CORDATE, CORDATED, adjective [Latin , with a different signification, from cor, the heart.] Having the form of a heart; heart-shaped; a term used by naturalists; as a cordate leaf in botany, resembling the longitudinal section of the heart. Hence, cordate-oblong, heart-shaped lengthened; cordate-lanceolate, heart-shaped, gradually tapering towards each extremity, like the head of a lance; cordate-sagittate, heart-shaped, but resembling the head of an arrow.

Cordated

CORDATE, CORDATED adjective [Latin , with a different signification, from cor, the heart.] Having the form of a heart; heart-shaped; a term used by naturalists; as a cordate leaf in botany, resembling the longitudinal section of the heart. Hence, cordate-oblong, heart-shaped lengthened; cordate-lanceolate, heart-shaped, gradually tapering towards each extremity, like the head of a lance; cordate-sagittate, heart-shaped, but resembling the head of an arrow.

Cordately

CORDATELY, adverb In a cordate form.

Corded

CORDED, participle passive

1. Bound or fastened with cords.

2. Piled in a form for measurement by the cord.

3. Made of cords; furnished with cords.

4. In heraldry, a cross corded is one wound with cords, or made of two pieces of wood.

Cordelier

CORDELIER, noun A Franciscan friar; one of the order of religious founded by St. Francis; a gray friar. The cordeliers wear a thick gray cloth, a little cowl, a chaperon, and a cloke, with a girdle of rope or cord, tied with three knots.

Cordial

CORDIAL, adjective [Latin , the heart.]

1. Proceeding from the heart; hearty; sincere; not hypocritical; warm; affectionate.

With looks of cordial love.

We give our friends a cordial reception.

2. Reviving the spirits; cheering; invigorating; giving strength or spirits; as cordial waters.

CORDIAL, noun

1. In medicine, that which suddenly excites the system, and increases the action of the heart or circulation when languid; any medicine which increases strength, raises the spirits, and gives life and cheerfulness to a person when weak and depressed.

2. Any thing that comforts, gladdens and exhilarates; as, good news is a cordial to the mind.

Cordiality

CORDIALITY, noun

1. Relation to the heart. [Not used.]

2. Sincerity; freedom from hypocrisy; sincere affection and kindness.

Our friends were received with cordiality

Cordially

CORDIALLY, adverb Heartily; sincerely; without hypocrisy; with real affection.

The Christian cordially receives the doctrines of grace.

Cordierite

CORDIERITE, noun The mineral called otherwise iolite and dichroite.

Cordiform

CORDIFORM, adjective [Latin , the heart, and form.] Heart-shaped; having the form of the human heart.

Cordiner

CORDINER, noun [Not used. See Cordwainer.]

Cordon

CORDON, noun [See Cord.]

1. In fortification, a row of stones jutting before the rampart, and the basis of the parapet; or a row of stones between the wall of a fortress which lies aslope, and the parapet which is perpendicular; serving as an ornament, and used only in fortifications of stone-work.

2. In military language, a line or series of military posts; as a cordon of troops.

Cordovan

CORDOVAN, noun Spanish leather.

Corduroy

CORDUROY, noun A thick cotton stuffribbed.

Cordwain

CORDWAIN, noun Spanish leather; goatskin tanned and dressed.

Cordwainer

CORDWAINER, noun [from cordwain.] A shoemaker. This word was formerly written cordiners. It is evidently from the French cordouan, cordouannier; properly, a worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather.

Cordwood

CORDWOOD, noun Wood cut and piled for sale by the cord, in distinction from long wood; properly, wood cut to the length of four feet; bu in this respect, the practice is not uniform. In Scotland, cord-wood is wood conveyed to market on board of vessels, in opposition to that which is floated.

Core

CORE, noun [Latin , the heart. Gr. See Class Gr.]

1. The heart or inner part of a thing; particularly, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as the core of an apple or quince. It was formerly applied to place; as, in the core of a square.

2. The inner part of an ulcer or boil.

3. A body. [Not used.]

4. A disorder of sheep, occasioned by worms in the liver.

Cored

CORED, adjective In the herring fishery, rolled in salt and prepared for drying.

Coriaceous

CORIACEOUS, adjective [Latin , leather.]

1. Consisting of leather, or resembling leather; tough; as coriaceous concretions.

2. In botany, stiff, like leather or parchment; applied to a leaf, a calyx or capsule.

Coriander

CORIANDER, noun [Latin , Gr.] A genus of plants of two species. The seeds of one species, the sativum, have a strong smell, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

Corindon

CORINDON, noun [See Corundum.]

Corinth

CORINTH, noun

1. A city of Greece. Hence,

2. A small fruit, now called currant, which see.

Corinthiac

CORINTHIAC, adjective Pertaining to Corinth.

Corinthian

CORINTHIAN, adjective Pertaining to Corinth, a celebrated city of Greece; as corinthian column; corinthian order; corinthian brass. The corinthian order, in architecture, is the most delicate of all the orders, and enriched with a profusion of ornaments. The capital is usually adorned with olive leaves or acanthus.

Corival

CORIVAL, verb transitive To rival; to pretend to equal.

Cork

CORK, noun [G., Latin , bark, rind, shell, crust.]

1. A glandiferous tree, a species of Quercus, growing in Spain and Portugal, having a thick, rough, fungous, cleft bark.

2. The outer bark of the tree, or epidermis, of which stopples for bottles and casks are made. This outer bark is taken off, and a new epidermis is formed, which, in six or seven years, becomes fit for use. This bark is also burnt to make a kind of light black, called Spanish black.

3. A stopple for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork

CORK, verb transitive To stop bottles or casks with corks; to confine or make fast with a cork

Cork-Screw

CORK-SCREW, noun A screw to draw corks from bottles.

Corking-Pin

CORKING-PIN, noun A pin of a large size.

Corky

CORKY, adjective Consisting of cork; resembling cork; made of cork; tough.

Cormorant

CORMORANT, noun [Cormorant is supposed to be corrupted from corvus marinus, sea raven. The Welsh also call the fowl morvran, sea crow.]

1. The water raven, a large fowl of the pelican kind; the head and neck are black; the coverts of the wings, the scapulars and the back are of a deep green, edged with black and glossed with blue. The base of the lower mandible is covered with a naked yellow skin, which extends under the chin and forms a sort of pouch. This fowl occupies the cliffs by the sea, feeds on fish, and is extremely voracious.

2. A glutton.

Corn

CORN, noun [G., Latin See Grain.]

1. A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley and maiz; a grain. In this sense, it has a plural; as, three barley corns make an inch. It is generally applied to edible seeds, which, when ripe, are hard.

2. The seeds of certain plants in general, in bulk or quantity; as, corn is dear or scarce. In this sense, the word comprehends all the kinds of grain which constitute the food of men and horses. In Great Britain, corn is generally applied to wheat, rye, oats and barley. In the United States, it has the same general sense, but by custom, it is appropriated to maiz. We are accustomed to say, the crop of wheat is good, but the corn is bad; it is a good year for wheat and rye, but bad for corn In this sense, corn has no plural.

3. The plants which produce corn when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. We say, a field of corn a sheaf or a shock of corn a load of corn The plants or stalks are included in the terms corn until the seed is separated from the ears.

4. In surgery, a hard excrescence, or induration of the skin, on the toes or some part of the feet, occasioned by the pressure of the shoes; so called from its hardness and resemblance to a corn

5. A small hard particle. [See Grain.]

CORN, verb transitive

1. To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; as, to corn beef.

2. To granulate; to form into small grains.

Corn-Chandler

CORN-CHANDLER, noun [Chandler, a dealer in candles, is supposed to be from the French chandelier; but what has this word to do with corn and ship, in corn-chandler and ship-chandler? In these words, chandler seems to be a corruption of the Teutonic handler, a trader.] A dealer in corn.

Corn-Crake

CORN-CRAKE, noun The crake or land rail; the corn-crow, for kraka, in Sw., and krage, in Dan., is our word crow, and the name is probably taken from its cry. The Dutch kraai, a crow, is contracted from kraag, and kraaijen is to crow, to vaunt, to tell tales.

Corn-Cutter

CORN-CUTTER, noun [corn and cut.] One who cuts corns, or indurations of the skin.

Corn-Marygold

CORN-MARYGOLD, noun A genus of plants, the Chrysanthemum.

Corn-Parsley

CORN-PARSLEY, noun A genus of plants, the Sison.

Corn-Rocket

CORN-ROCKET, noun A genus of plants, the Bunias.

Corn-Sallad

CORN-SALLAD, noun A plant, a species of valeriana, whose top leaves are said to be a good sallad.

Corn-Violet

CORN-VIOLET, noun A species of Campanula.

Cornage

CORNAGE, noun [Latin , a horn.] An ancient tenure of lands, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

Cornamute

CORNELIAN, CORNEMUSE, CORNAMUTE noun A kind of rustic flute.

Cornbind

CORNBIND, noun Climbing buck-wheat. [Local.]

Cornblade

CORNBLADE, noun The leaf of the maiz. Cornblades are collected and preserved as fodder, in some of the southern states of America.

Cornclad

CORNCLAD, adjective Covered with growing corn.

Cornea

CORNEA, noun [Latin , a horn.] The transparent membrane in the fore-part of the eye, through which the rays of light pass; situated in the sclerotica, and considered by some as a portion of it.

Cornel

CORNEL, CORNEL-TREE, CORNELIAN-TREE, noun [Latin , a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. The mascula, or cornelian cherry tree, has a stem of twenty feet high, branching and forming a large head, garnished with oblong leaves and small umbels of yellowish-green flowers, succeeded by small, red, acid, eatable, cherry-like fruit. [See Carnelian.]

Cornel-Tree

CORNEL, CORNEL-TREE CORNELIAN-TREE, noun [Latin , a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. The mascula, or cornelian cherry tree, has a stem of twenty feet high, branching and forming a large head, garnished with oblong leaves and small umbels of yellowish-green flowers, succeeded by small, red, acid, eatable, cherry-like fruit. [See Carnelian.]

Cornelian

CORNELIAN, CORNEMUSE, CORNAMUTE, noun A kind of rustic flute.

Cornelian-Tree

CORNEL, CORNEL-TREE, CORNELIAN-TREE noun [Latin , a horn, or its root, from the hardness of the wood.] The cornelian cherry or dog-wood, a genus of plants of several species. The mascula, or cornelian cherry tree, has a stem of twenty feet high, branching and forming a large head, garnished with oblong leaves and small umbels of yellowish-green flowers, succeeded by small, red, acid, eatable, cherry-like fruit. [See Carnelian.]

Cornemuse

CORNELIAN, CORNEMUSE CORNAMUTE, noun A kind of rustic flute.

Corneous

CORNEOUS, adjective [Latin , a horn. See Horn.] Horny; like horn; consisting of a horny substance, or substance resembling horn; hard.

Corner

CORNER, noun [See Horn and Grain.]

1. The point where two converging lines meet; properly, the external point; an angle; as, we meet at the corner of the state-house, or at the corner of two streets.

2. The interior point where two lines meet; an angle.

3. The space between two converging lines or walls which meet in a point. Hence,

4. An inclosed place; a secret or retired place.

This thing was not done in a corner Acts 26:26.

5. Indefinitely any part; a part. They searched every corner of the forest. They explored all corners of the country.

6. The end, extremity or limit; as the corners of the head or beard. Leviticus 21:5 and 19.

CORNER-teeth of a horse, the foreteeth between the middling teeth and the tushes, two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old.

Corner-Stone

CORNER-STONE, noun The stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone, and especially the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice.

Who laid the corner-stone thereof? Job 38:1.

Christ himself being the chief corner-stone Ephesians 2:1.

Corner-Wise

CORNER-WISE, adverb Diagonally; with the corner in front; not parallel.

Cornered

CORNERED, adjective Having corners; having three or more angles.

Cornet

CORNET, noun [Latin , a horn. See Horn.]

1. An instrument of music, in the nature of a trumpet, sounded by blowing with the mouth. It was of a winding shape like a horn; used in armies and on occasions of joy.

David played before the Lord on cornets. 2 Samuel 6:5.

2. In modern usage, an officer of cavalry, who bears the ensign or colors of a troop. He is the third officer in the company.

3. A company of cavalry; a troop of horse. [Not used.]

4. The cornet of a horse [coronet[ is the lowest part of his pastern, that runs round the coffin and is distinguished by the hair that joins and covers the upper part of the hoof.

5. A little cap of paper in which retailers inclose small wares.

6. A scarf anciently worn by doctors.

7. A head dress.

Cornetcy

CORNETCY, noun The commission or rank of a cornet.

Corneter

CORNETTER, CORNETER CORNICE, noun One who blows a cornet.

Cornetter

CORNETTER, CORNETER, CORNICE, noun One who blows a cornet.

Cornfield

CORNFIELD, noun A field where corn is growing.

Cornflag

CORNFLAG, noun A genus of plants, the Gladiolus, of several species, bearing red or white flowers.

Cornfloor

CORNFLOOR, noun A floor for corn, or for thrashing corn. Isaiah 21:10. Hosea 9:1.

Cornflower

CORNFLOWER, noun A flower or plant growing among corn; as the blue-bottle, wild poppy, etc.

Cornheap

CORNHEAP, noun A heap of corn.

Cornice

CORNETTER, CORNETER, CORNICE noun One who blows a cornet.

1. In architecture, the uppermost member of the entablature of a column, or the highest projecture; that which crowns and order.

2. A little projecture in joinery or masonry; as the cornice of a chimney.

Cornice-ring of a cannon, is the ring next from the muzzle-ring backward.

Cornicle

CORNICLE, noun [Latin , a horn.] A little horn.

Corniculate

CORNICULATE, adjective [from Latin , a horn.]

1. Horned; having horns.

2. In botany, producing horned pods; bearing a little spur or horn.

Cornigerous

CORNIGEROUS, adjective [Latin , a horn, to bear.] Horned; having horns; as cornigerous animals.

Corning-House

CORNING-HOUSE, noun A house or place where powder is granulated.

Cornish

CORNISH, adjective Pertaining to Cornwall in England; and as a noun, the language of Cornwall.

Cornist

CORNIST, noun A performer on the cornet or horn.

Cornland

CORNLAND, noun Land appropriated or suitable to the production of corn, or grain.

Cornless

CORNLESS, adjective Destitute of corn; as cornless dwelling places.

Cornloft

CORNLOFT, noun An apartment for corn; a granary.

Cornmaster

CORNMASTER, noun One who cultivates corn for sale. [Not used.]

Cornmeter

CORNMETER, noun One who measures corn.

Cornmill

CORNMILL, noun A mill for grinding corn, more generally called a grist-mill.

Cornpipe

CORNPIPE, noun A pipe made by slitting the joint of a green stalk of corn.

Cornrose

CORNROSE, noun A species of poppy, or Papaver.

Cornstalk

CORNSTALK, noun A stalk of corn, particularly a stalk of the maiz.

Cornucopia

CORNUCOPIA, noun [Latin , a horn, and plenty.]

1. The horn of plenty, an emblem of abundance of fruits.

2. In architecture and sculpture, the figure of a horn, from which fruits and flowers are represented as proceeding.

Cornute

CORNUTE, verb transitive [Latin , a horn.[ To bestow horns; to cuckold.

Cornuted

CORNUTED, participle passive or adjective

1. Grafted with horns; horned; cuckolded.

2. In botany, horn-shaped.

Cornuto

CORNUTO, noun A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.

Cornutor

CORNUTOR, noun A cuckold-maker.

Corny

CORNY, adjective [Latin , a horn.] Horny; strong, stiff or hard like horn; resembling horn.

CORNY, adjective [from corn.] Producing corn; containing corn.

Corody

CORODY, CORRODY, noun An allowance of meat, drink or clothing, due to the king from an abbey or other religious house, for the sustenance of such one of his servants, as he thinks good to bestow on it. An allowance for the maintenance of any of the kings servants living in an abbey.

Corodies are a right of sustenance, or to receive certain allotments of victuals and provision for ones maintenance. In lieu of which, a pension or sum of money is sometimes substituted.

The king is entitled to a corody out of every bishopric, that is, to send one of his chaplains to be maintained by the bishop, or to have a pension allowed, till the bishop promotes him to a benefice. [This has fallen into disuse.] According to the Italian, the latter word is the correct orthography.

Corol

COROL, COROLLA, noun [Latin , a little crown.] In botany, the inner covering of a flower. The corol surrounds the parts of fructification, and is composed of one or more flower leaves, called petals. It is distinguished from the perianth, by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors; but there are many exceptions. It is sometimes inaccurately called blossom and flower.

Corolla

COROL, COROLLA noun [Latin , a little crown.] In botany, the inner covering of a flower. The corol surrounds the parts of fructification, and is composed of one or more flower leaves, called petals. It is distinguished from the perianth, by the fineness of its texture and the gayness of its colors; but there are many exceptions. It is sometimes inaccurately called blossom and flower.

Corollaceous

COROLLACEOUS, adjective Pertaining to a corol; inclosing and protecting like a wreath.

A corrollaceous covering.

Corollary

COROLLARY, noun [Latin , coronet, a crown.

1. A conclusion or consequence drawn from premises, or from what is advanced or demonstrated. If it is demonstrated that a triangle which has equal sides, has also equal angles, it follows as a corollary that a triangle which has three equal sides, has its three angles equal.

A corollary is an inference from a preceding proposition.

2. A surplus.

Corollet

COROLLET, COROLLULE, noun One of the partial flowers which make a compound one; the floret in an aggregate flower.

Corollule

COROLLET, COROLLULE noun One of the partial flowers which make a compound one; the floret in an aggregate flower.

Corona

CORONA, noun [Latin , A crown.]

1. In architecture, a large flat member of a cornice, crowning the entablature, and the whole order; called by workmen the drip.

2. In anatomy, the upper surface of the molar teeth or grinders.

3. In botany, the circumference or margin of a radiated compound flower. Also, the appendage to the top of seeds, which enables them to disperse.

4. In optics, a halo or luminous circle around the sun, moon or stars.

Coronal

CORONAL, adjective Belonging to the crown or top of the head; as the coronal suture.

CORONAL, noun

1. A crown; wreath; garland.

2. The first suture of the skull.

Coronary

CORONARY, adjective Relating to a crown; seated on the top of the head; or placed as a crown.

CORONARY vessels, in anatomy, certain vessels which furnish the substance of the heart with blood.

CORONARY arteries, two arteries which spring from the aorta, before it leaves the pericardium, and supply the substance of the heart with blood.

CORONARY vein, a vein diffused over the exterior surface of the heart, receiving the blood from the heart.

Stomachic coronary a vein inserted into the trunk of the splenic vein, which, by uniting with the mesenteric, forms the vena porta.

Coronation

CORONATION, noun [a crown.]

1. The act or solemnity of crowning a king or emperor; the act of investing a prince with the insignia of royalty, on his succeeding to the sovereignty.

2. The pomp or assembly attending a coronation

CORONATION-oath, the oath taken by a king at his coronation

Coronel

CORONEL, noun The officer who commands a regiment.

Coroner

CORONER, noun [Law Lat., a crown.] An officer whose office is concerned principally with pleas of the crown. One chief part of his duty is, when a person is slain or dies suddenly or in prison, to inquire into the manner of his death. This must be done by a jury, on sight of the body, and at the place where the death happened. In England, the coroner is to inquire also concerning shipwrecks, and certify whether wrecks or not, and who is in possession of the goods; also concerning treasure-trove. As a ministerial officer, the coroner is the sheriffs substitute; and when an exception can be taken to the sheriff, for suspicion of partiality, process is awarded to the coroner

In some of the States, in America, there is a coroner but his principal or only duty is to inquire into the causes of untimely death. In Connecticut there is no such officer, the duty being performed by a constable or justice of the peace.

Coronet

CORONET, noun [from corona, a crown.]

1. An inferior crown worn by noblemen. The coronet of a duke is adorned with strawberry leaves; that of a marquis has leaves with pearls interposed; that of an earl raises the pearls above the leaves; that of a viscount is surrounded with pearls only; that of a baron has only four pearls.

2. In poetical language, an ornamental head dress.

CORONET of a horse. [See Cornet.]

Coroniform

CORONIFORM, adjective [Latin , a crown, form.] Having the form of a crown.

Coronoid

CORONOID, adjective [Gr., a crow, and form.] Noting the upper and anterior process of the end of the lower jaw, called the coronoid process.

Coronule

CORONULE, noun [from corona, a crown.] A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds.

Corporal

CORPORAL, noun [Latin , head.]

1. The lowest officer of a company of infantry, next below a sergeant. He has charge over one of the divisions, places and relieves sentinels, etc.

2. The corporal of a ship of war, is an officer under the master at arms, employed to teach the sailors the use of small arms; to attend at the gangways or entering ports, and see that no spirituous liquors are brought, except by permission; to extinguish fire and candles, etc.

CORPORAL, adjective [Latin , body.]

1. Belonging or relating to the body; as corporal pain, opposed to mental.

2. Material; not spiritual. [See Corporeal.]

Corporale

CORPORAL, CORPORALE noun A fine linen cloth, used to cover the sacred elements in the eucharist or in which the sacrament is put.

Corporal oath, a solemn oath, so called from the ancient usage of touching the CORPORALE or cloth that covered the consecrated elements.

Corporality

CORPORALITY, noun The state of being a body or embodied; opposed to spirituality.

If this light hath any corporality it is most subtile and pure.

Corporally

CORPORALLY, adverb Bodily; in or with the body; as, to be corporally present.

Corporalship

CORPORALSHIP, noun [from corporal.] A corporals command in a Russian company, or a division of twenty-three men.

Each squadron consists of two companies, and each of these, of three corporalships or sixty nine men who come in the front.

Corporas

CORPORAS, noun The old name of the corporal or communion cloth.

Corporate

CORPORATE, adjective [Latin , to be shaped into a body, body.]

1. United in a body, or community, as a number of individuals, who are empowered to transact business as an individual; formed into a body; as a corporate assembly, or society; a corporate town.

2. United; general; collectively one.

They answer in a corporate voice.

Corporateness

CORPORATENESS, noun The state of a corporate body.

Corporation

CORPORATION, noun A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Corporations are aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either forever, or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college, the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A corporation sole consists of one person only and his successors, as a king or a bishop.

Corporator

CORPORATOR, noun The member of a corporation.

Corporature

CORPORATURE, noun The state of being embodied. [Not in use.]

Corporeal

CORPOREAL, CORPOREOUS, adjective Having a body; consisting of a material body; material; opposed to spiritual or immaterial; as our corporeal frame; corporeal substance.

Corporealist

CORPOREALIST, noun One who denies the existence of spiritual substances.

Corporeally

CORPOREALLY, adverb In body; in a bodily form or manner.

Corporeity

CORPOREITY, noun The state of having a body, or of being embodied; materiality.

The one attributed corporeity to God.

Corporeous

CORPOREAL, CORPOREOUS adjective Having a body; consisting of a material body; material; opposed to spiritual or immaterial; as our corporeal frame; corporeal substance.

Corporify

CORPORIFY, verb transitive To embody; to form into a body.

Corposant

CORPOSANT, noun A name given by seamen to a luminous appearance often beheld, in dark tempestuous nights, about the decks and rigging of a ship, but particularly at the mastheads and yard-arms, supposed to be electrical.

Corps

CORPS, noun [Latin , body. It is pronounced kore, and is an ill word in English.

1. In military language, a body of troops; any division of an army; as a corps de reserve.

2. A body, in contempt, as used by Milton and Dryden, but probably pronounced in the English manner, as corpse.

3. A carcase; a dead body. [See Corpse.]

4. In architecture, any part that projects beyond a wall, serving as the ground of some decoration.

Corpse

CORPSE, noun [Latin , a body.] The dead body of a human being.

Corpulence

CORPULENCE, CORPULENCY, noun [Latin , body.]

Corpulency

CORPULENCE, CORPULENCY noun [Latin , body.]

1. Fleshiness; excessive fatness; a state of being loaded with flesh; as the body of a human being.

2. Spissitude; grossness of matter; as corpulence of water. [Little used.]

Corpulent

CORPULENT, adjective Fleshy; having a great or excessive quantity of fat or flesh, in proportion to the frame of the body; as a corpulent child.

Corpus Christi. [Body of Christ.] A festival of the church of England, kept on the next Thursday after Trinity-Sunday, in honor of the Eucharist.

Corpuscle

CORPUSCLE, noun [Latin , body.] A minute particle, or physical atom; corpuscles are the very small bodies which compose large bodies, not the elementary principles of matter, but such small particles simple or compound, as are not dissolved or dissipated by ordinary heat.

It will add much to our satisfaction, if those corpuscles can be discovered by microscopes.

Corpuscular

CORPUSCULAR, adjective Relating to corpuscles, or small particles, supposed to be the constituent materials of all large bodies. The corpuscular philosophy attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter.

Corpuscularian

CORPUSCULARIAN, adjective Corpuscular, as above.

CORPUSCULARIAN, noun An advocate for the corpuscular philosophy.

Corradiation

CORRADIATION, noun [Latin See Ray.] A conjunction of rays in one point.

Correct

CORRECT, adjective [Latin , to set right; right, straight. See Right.] Literally, set right, or made straight. Hence, right; conformable to truth, rectitude or propriety, or conformable to a just standard; not faulty; free from error. A correct edition of a book is exactly according to the original copy. correct manners correspond with the rules of morality and received notions of decorum. correct principles coincide with the truth. correct language is agreeable to established usage.

CORRECT, verb transitive [Latin See Right.]

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

2. To amend; to remove or retrench faults or errors; to set right; as, to correct a book; to correct a copy for the press; or in printing, to correct the press, or errors of the press.

3. To bring back or attempt to bring back to propriety in morals; to punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.

CORRECT thy son, and he shall give thee rest. Proverbs 29:17.

4. To obviate or remove whatever is wrong or inconvenient; to reduce or change the qualities of any thing by mixture, or other application; to counteract whatever is injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations; to correct the relaxing quality of water by boiling it with animal substances.

Corrected

CORRECTED, participle passive Set right; freed from errors; amended; punished.

Correcting

CORRECTING, participle present tense Bringing to the standard of truth, justice or propriety; amending; chastising.

Correction

CORRECTION, noun [Latin]

1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety; as the correction of opinions or manners.

All scripture is profitable for correction 2 Timothy 3:16.

2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as the correction of a book, or of the press.

3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.

4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects.

Withhold not correction from the child. Proverbs 23:13.

5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions.

They have refused to receive correction Jeremiah 5:3.

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction Proverbs 3:11.

6. Critical notice; animadversion.

7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as the correction of acidity in the stomach.

House of correction a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.

Correctional

CORRECTIONAL, adjective Tending to or intended for correction.

Correctioner

CORRECTIONER, noun One that has been in the house of correction. [Not used.]

Corrective

CORRECTIVE, adjective Having the power to correct; having the quality of removing or obviating what is wrong, or injurious; tending to rectify; as corrective penalties.

Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of bilious alkali.

CORRECTIVE, noun

1. That which has the power of correcting; that which has the quality of altering or obviating what is wrong, or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct.

2. Limitation; restriction. [Little used.]

Correctly

CORRECTLY, adverb In a correct manner; in conformity with truth, justice, rectitude, or propriety; according to a standard; agreeable to a copy or original; exactly; accurately; without fault, or error; as, to behave correctly; to write, speak or think correctly; to judge correctly

Correctness

CORRECTNESS, noun

1. Conformity to truth, justice, or propriety; as the correctness of opinions, of judgment, or of manners.

2. Conformity to settled usages or rules; as correctness in writing or speaking.

3. Conformity to a copy or original; as the correctness of a book.

4. Conformity to established rules of taste or proportion; as the correctness of design in painting, sculpture or architecture.

Corrector

CORRECTOR, noun

1. One who corrects; one who amends faults, retrenches error, and renders conformable to truth or propriety, or to any standard; as a corrector of the press; a corrector of abuses.

2. One who punishes for correction; one who amends or reforms by chastisement, reproof or instruction.

3. That which corrects; that which abates or removes what is noxious or inconvenient; an ingredient in a composition which abates or counteracts the force of another; as, an alkali is a corrector of acids.

Turpentine is a corrector of quicksilver.

Corregidor

CORREGIDOR, noun A Spanish magistrate.

Correlate

CORRELATE, noun [Latin Con and relatus. See Relate.] One who stands in an opposite relation, as father and son.

Correlation

CORRELATION, noun Reciprocal relation.

Correlative

CORRELATIVE, adjective [Latin Con and relativus. See Relate and Relative.] Having a reciprocal relation, so that the existence of one in a certain state depends on the existence of another; as father and son, husband and wife, are correlative terms. The term son is correlative to that of father.

CORRELATIVE, noun That which is opposed to something else in a certain relation. The son is the correlative of his father. Darkness and light are correlatives. Rest is the correlative of motion.

Correlatively

CORRELATIVELY, adverb In a correlative relation.

Correlativeness

CORRELATIVENESS, noun The state of being correlative.

Correption

CORREPTION, noun [Latin] Chiding; reproof; reprimand.

Correspond

CORRESPOND, verb intransitive [Latin , to answer, to promise. See Sponsor.]

1. To suit; to answer; to agree; to fit; to be congruous; to be adapted to. Levity of manners does not correspond with the dignity of the clerical character. The length of a room should correspond with the breadth. Actions should correspond with words.

2. To be equal; to be adequate or proportioned. Let the means of prosecuting a war correspond with the magnitude of the contest.

3. To communicate by letters sent and received; to hold intercourse with a person at a distance by sending and receiving letters. We delight to correspond with those we love and respect.

Correspondence

CORRESPONDENCE, CORRESPONDENCY, n. 1. Relation; fitness; congruity; mutual adaptation of one thing to another. There is no correspondence between a polite education and clownish manners.2. Intercourse between persons at a distance, by means of letters sent and answers received. The ministers of the two courts have had a correspondence on the subject of commerce. Hence, 3. The letters which pass between correspondents. The correspondence of the ministers is published.4. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of offices or civilities; connection.Let military persons hold good correspondence with the other great men in the state.

Correspondency

CORRESPONDENCE, CORRESPONDENCY noun

1. Relation; fitness; congruity; mutual adaptation of one thing to another. There is no correspondence between a polite education and clownish manners.

2. Intercourse between persons at a distance, by means of letters sent and answers received. The ministers of the two courts have had a correspondence on the subject of commerce. Hence,

3. The letters which pass between correspondents. The correspondence of the ministers is published.

4. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of offices or civilities; connection.

Let military persons hold good correspondence with the other great men in the state.

Correspondent

CORRESPONDENT, adjective Suitable; fit; congruous; agreeable; answerable; adapted. Let behavior be correspondent to profession, and both be correspondent to good morals.

CORRESPONDENT, noun One who corresponds; one with whom an intercourse is carried on by letters or messages. When A is the correspondent of B, B is the correspondent of adjective

Correspondently

CORRESPONDENTLY, adverb In a corresponding manner.

Corresponding

CORRESPONDING, participle present tense

1. Carrying on intercourse by letters.

2. adjective Answering; agreeing; suiting.

Corresponsive

CORRESPONSIVE, adjective Answerable; adapted.

Corridor

CORRIDOR, noun The termination dor may perhaps be the Latin Tor, as in curator, cursitor. corridor signifies a runner; hence, a running, flowing, or long line.]

1. In architecture, a gallery or long aisle round a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other.

2. In fortification, the covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

Corrigible

CORRIGIBLE, adjective [Latin , to correct.]

1. That may be set right, or amended; as a corrigible defect.

2. That may be reformed; as, the young man may be corrigible

3. Punishable; that may be chastised for correction. He was adjudged corrigible for abusive words.

Corrival

CORRIVAL, noun A fellow rival; a competitor. More correctly co-rival, which see.

Corrivate

CORRIVATE, verb transitive [Latin Con and rivus.] To draw water out of several streams into one. [Little used.]

Corrivation

CORRIVATION, noun The running of different streams into one. [Not much used.]

Corroborant

CORROBORANT, adjective [See Corroborate.] Strengthening; having the power or quality of giving strength; as a corroborant medicine.

CORROBORANT, noun A medicine that strengthens the human body when weak.

Corroborate

CORROBORATE, verb transitive [Latin , to strengthen, strength.]

1. To strengthen; to make strong, or to give additional strength to; as, to corroborate the nerves; to corroborate the judgment, authority or habits.

2. To confirm; to make more certain. The news was doubtful, but is corroborated by recent advices.

Corroborated

CORROBORATED, participle passive Strengthened; confirmed; rendered more certain.

Corroborating

CORROBORATING, participle present tense Strengthening; giving firmness or additional assurance.

Corroboration

CORROBORATION, noun The act of strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength, assurance, or security; confirmation; as the corroboration of an argument, or of intelligence.

Corroborative

CORROBORATIVE, noun A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.

Corrode

CORRODE, verb transitive [Latin , to eat or gnaw.]

1. To eat away by degrees; to wear away, or diminish, by gradually separating small particles from a body, in the manner an animal gnaws a substance. Thus, nitric acid corrodes copper.

2. To wear away by degrees; to prey upon; to impair; to consume, or diminish by slow degrees. Jealousy and envy corrode the constitution. Substances are corroded by time. The anxious man is a victim to corroding care.

Corroded

CORRODED, participle passive Eaten away gradually; worn, diminished, impaired, by slow degrees.

Corrodent

CORRODENT, adjective Having the power of corroding, or wasting by degrees.

CORRODENT, noun Any substance or medicine that corrodes.

Corrodibility

CORRODIBILITY, noun The quality of being corrodible.

Corrodible

CORRODIBLE, adjective That may be corroded.

Corroding

CORRODING, participle present tense Eating away gradually; impairing; wasting.

Corrody

CORRODY, [See Corody.] But corrody is the most correct orthography.

Corrosibility

CORROSIBILITY, noun [See Corrodibility.]

Corrosible

CORROSIBLE, adjective [See Corrodible.]

Corrosion

CORROSION, noun s as z. From corrode. The action of eating or wearing away by slow degrees, as by the action of acids on metals, by which the substance is gradually changed. This is effected by the affinity of the menstruum with the component parts of the substance, in consequence of which the two substances unite and form new combinations.

Corrosive

CORROSIVE, adjective

1. Eating; wearing away; having the power of gradually wearing, consuming or impairing; as corrosive sublimate; corrosive care; a corrosive ulcer.

2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.

CORROSIVE sublimate, the corrosive muriate or perchloride of mercury.

CORROSIVE, noun

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

2. That which has the power of fretting.

Corrosively

CORROSIVELY, adverb Like a corrosive; with the power of corrosion; in a corrosive manner.

Corrosiveness

CORROSIVENESS, noun The quality of corroding, eating away or wearing; acrimony.

Corrugant

CORRUGANT, adjective [See Corrugate.] Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.