Corruptingly (adv.) In a manner that corrupts.
Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
Corruption (n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
Corruption (n.) The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
Corruption (n.) The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
Corruptionist (n.) One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption.
Corruptive (a.) Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption.
Corruptless (a.) Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible.
Corruptly (adv.) In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wrongfully.
Corruptness (n.) The quality of being corrupt.
Corruptress (n.) A woman who corrupts.
Corsac (n.) The corsak.
Corsage (n.) The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
Corsage (n.) a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere.
Corsair (n.) A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
Corsair (n.) A piratical vessel.
Corsak (n.) A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia.
Corse (n.) A living body or its bulk.
Corse (n.) A corpse; the dead body of a human being.
Corselet (n.) 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.
Corselet (n.) The thorax of an insect.
Corsepresent (n.) An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.
Corset (n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
Corset (n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
Corseted (imp. & p. p.) of Corset
Corseting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Corset
Corset (v. t.) To inclose in corsets.
Corslet (n.) A corselet.
Corsned (n.) 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 (n.) A train of attendants; a procession.
Cortes (n. pl.) 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.
Cortices (pl. ) of Cortex
Cortex (n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.
Cortex (n.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.
Cortex (n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.
Cortical (a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.
Corticate (a.) Alt. of Corticated
Corticated (a.) Having a special outer covering of a nature unlike the interior part.
Corticifer (n.) One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.
Corticiferous (a.) Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.
Corticiferous (a.) Having a barklike c/nenchyms.
Corticiform (a.) Resembling, or having the form of, bark or rind.
Corticine (n.) A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.
Corticose (a.) Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.
Corticous (a.) Relating to, or resembling, bark; corticose.
Cortile (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
Corundums (pl. ) of Corundum
Corundum (n.) The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, 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.
Coruscant (a.) Glittering in flashes; flashing.
Coruscate (v. i.) To glitter in flashes; to flash.
Coruscation (n.) A sudden flash or play of light.
Coruscation (n.) A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
Corve (n.) See Corf.
Corvee (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
Corven () p. p. of Carve.
Corvet (n.) Alt. of Corvette
Corvette (n.) 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.
Corvetto (n.) A curvet.
Corvine (a.) Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.
Corvorant (n.) See Cormorant.
Corybants (pl. ) of Corybant
Corybantes (pl. ) of Corybant
Corybant (n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
Corybantiasm (n.) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.
Corybantic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.
Corymb (n.) 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.
Corymb (n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.
Corymbed (a.) Corymbose.
Corymbiferous (a.) Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.
Corymbose (a.) Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form.
Corymbosely (adv.) In corymbs.
Coryphaenoid (a.) Belonging to, or like, the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin.
Coryphee (n.) A ballet dancer.
Coryphene (n.) A fish of the genus Coryphaena. See Dolphin. (2)
Corypheuses (pl. ) of Corypheus
Coryphei (pl. ) of Corypheus
Corypheus (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest.
Coryphodon (n.) 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.
Coryphodont (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the genus Coryphodon.
Coryza (n.) Nasal catarrh.
Coscinomancy (n.) Divination by means of a suspended sieve.
Coscoroba (n.) A large, white, South American duck, of the genus Cascoroba, resembling a swan.
Cosecant (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cosen (v. t.) See Cozen.
Cosenage (n.) See Cozenage.
Cosening (n.) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not.
Cosentient (a.) Perceiving together.
Cosey (a.) See Cozy.
Cosher (v. t.) To levy certain exactions or tribute upon; to lodge and eat at the expense of. See Coshering.
Cosher (v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to pet.
Cosherer (n.) One who coshers.
Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.
Cosier (n.) A tailor who botches his work.
Cosignificative (a.) Having the same signification.
Cosignitary (a.) Signing some important public document with another or with others; as, a treaty violated by one of the cosignitary powers.
Cosignitaries (pl. ) of Cosignitary
Cosignitary (n.) One who signs a treaty or public document along with others or another; as, the cosignitaries of the treaty of Berlin.
Cosily (adv.) See Cozily.
Cosinage (n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
Cosinage (n.) 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.