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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Cor-rĕc'tion-er, n.p. 297One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [Obs.] Shak.
  2. Cor-rĕc'tive, a.p. 297Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of bilious alkali. Arbuthnot.
  3. Cor-rĕc'tive, n.p. 297That which has the power of correcting, altering, or obviating what is wrong or injurious; as, alkalies are correctives of acids; penalties are correctives of immoral conduct. 2. Limitation…
  4. Cor-rĕct'ly, adv.p. 297In a correct manner; exactly; accurately; without fault or error.
  5. Cor-rĕct'ness, n.p. 297State of being correct; 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…
  6. Cor-rĕct'or, n.p. 297One 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. That which…
  7. Cor-rĕct'o-ry, a.p. 297Containing or making correction.
  8. Cor-rĕct'ress, n.p. 297A female who corrects.
  9. Cor-rĕġ'i-dōr, n.p. 297A Spanish magistrate.
  10. Cŏr'rei, n.p. 297A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. “Fleet foot on the correi.” W. Scott.
  11. Côr're-late, n.p. 297One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else. South.
  12. Côr're-lāte', v. i.p. 297To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. [R.] Johnson.
  13. Côr're-lā'tion, n.p. 297Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law.
  14. Cor-rĕl'a-tive, a.p. 297Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.
  15. Cor-rēl'a-tive, n.p. 297One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to some other person or thing. Locke. Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman. 2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun.
  16. Cor-rĕl'a-tive-ly, adv.p. 297In a correlative relation.
  17. Cor-rēl'a-tive-ness, n.p. 297The state of being correlative.
  18. Cor-rĕp'tion, n.p. 297Chiding; reproof; reprimand; objurgation. [Obs.] Hammond.
  19. Cŏr're-spŏnd', v. i.p. 297To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer. Words being but empty sounds, any further than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them, as they correspond to…
  20. Cŏr're-spŏnd'ençe or Cŏr're-spŏnd'en-cy, n.p. 297Mutual adaptation of one thing to another; congruity; fitness; relation. The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be reasonable confirmations of the foreknowledge of God. Clark. 2.…
  21. Cŏr're-spōnd'ent, a.p. 297Having or indicating correspondence, adaptation, congruity, or fitness; suitable; congruous; conformable; answerable.
  22. Cŏr're-spōnd'ent, n.p. 297One who corresponds; one with whom an intercourse is carried on by letters or messages.
  23. Cŏr're-spŏnd'ent-ly, adv.p. 297In a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably.
  24. Cŏr're-spŏnd'ing, p. a.p. 297Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting. 2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who is invited to hold intercourse with the society…
  25. Cŏr're-spŏnd'ing-ly, adv.p. 297In a corresponding manner.
  26. Cōr're-spōn'sive, a.p. 297Answerable; adapted. Shak.
  27. Cōr're-spōn'sive-ly, adv.p. 297In a corresponding manner.
  28. Cŏr'ri-dōr', n.p. 297(Arch.) A gallery or passage-way leading to apartments independent of each other. “Long, sounding corridors.” Tennyson. 2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications…
  29. Cŏr'rĭ-gēn'dum, n.p. 297A thing or word to be corrected.
  30. Cŏr'ri-gent, n.p. 297(Med.) A substance added to a medicine to mollify or modify its action. Dunglison.
  31. Cŏr'ri-gi-bil'i-ty, n.p. 297The quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
  32. Cŏr'ri-gi-ble, a.p. 297Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. 2. Worthy of being chastised; punishable. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language.…
  33. Cŏr'ri-gi-ble-ness, n.p. 297The quality of being corrigible.
  34. Cor-rī′val, n.p. 297A fellow-rival; a competitor; a co-rival. Shak.
  35. Cor-rī'val, a.p. 297Having contending claims; emulous.
  36. Cor-rī'val, v. i. & t.p. 297To rival; to compete, or compete with. Shak.
  37. Cōr'ri-vāl'i-ty, n.p. 297The character or conduct of a corrival; co-rivalry. Fuller.
  38. Cor-rī'val-ry or Cor-rī'val-ship, n.p. 297Competition; rivalry.
  39. Cŏr'ri-vāte, v. t.p. 297To draw out of several streams into one; — said of water. [Obs.] Burton.
  40. Cŏr'ri-vā'tion, n.p. 297The running of different streams into one. [Obs.] Burton.
  41. Cor-rŏb'o-rant, a.p. 297Having the power or quality of giving strength; confirming; as, a corroborant medicine.
  42. Cor-rōb'o-rant, n.p. 297(Med.) A medicine that strengthens the body when weak.
  43. Cor-rŏb'o-rāte, v. t.p. 297[Lat. corroboratus, p. p. of corroborare, from con and roborare, to strengthen, from robur, strength; Fr. corroborer, Sp. corroborar, It. corroborare. 1. To make strong, or to give additional…
  44. Cor-rŏb'o-rate, a.p. 297Corroborated. [Obs.] “Corroborate by custom.” Bacon.
  45. Cor-rŏb'/o-rā'tion, n.p. 297The act of corroborating; the act of strengthening or confirming; addition of strength, assurance, or security; confirmation; as, the corroboration of an argument, or of intelligence. 2. That which…
  46. Cor-rōb'o-ra-tīve, a.p. 297Having the power of giving strength, or additional strength; tending to corroborate or confirm. Warburton.
  47. Cor-rŏb'o-ra-tīve, n.p. 297A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant.
  48. Cor-rŏb'o-ra-to-ry, a.p. 297Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.
  49. Cor-rōde′, v. t.p. 297To 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. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce…
  50. Cor-rōd'ent, a.p. 297Having the power of corroding or wasting by degrees. [Rare.] Bp. King.
  51. Cor-rōd'ent, n.p. 297Any substance or medicine that corrodes. Bp. King.
  52. Cor-rō′di-āte, v. t.p. 297To eat away by degrees; to corrode. [Obs.] Sandys.
  53. Cor-rō′di-bil′i-ty, n.p. 297The quality of being corrodible. [Rare.] Johnson.
  54. Cor-rōd'i-ble, a.p. 297Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Browne.
  55. Cŏr'-ro-dy, n.p. 297The same as CORODY, q. v. Southey.
  56. Cor-rō'si-bil'i-ty, n.p. 297Corrodibility. [Rare.] Boyle.
  57. Cor-rō'si-ble, a.p. 297Corrodible. — Bailey.
  58. Cor-rō'si-ble-ness, n.p. 297The quality of being corrosible. Bailey.
  59. Cor-rō'sion, n.p. 297The action of eating or wearing away by slow degrees, as by the action of acids on metals. Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. Quincy.
  60. Cor-rō′sīve, a.p. 297Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, consuming, or impairing. “Corrosive liquors.” Grew. “Corrosive famine.” Thomson. 2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing; as, corrosive care.…