v. t. [ L. corradere, -rasum; cor- + radere to rub. ] 1. To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. [ Obs. ] Dr. R. Clerke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Radiating to or from the same point. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To converge to one point or focus, as light or rays. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A conjunction or concentration of rays in one point. Bacom [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp., a yard, a yard for cattle, fr. corro a circle or ring, fr. L. currere to run. Cf. Kraal. ] A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Corraled p. pr. & vb. n. Corralling. ] 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. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Corrade. ] (Geol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corrosive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. correctus, p. p. of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to lead straight: cf. F. correct. See Regular, Right, and cf. Escort. ] Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views. [ 1913 Webster ]

Always use the most correct editions. Felton.

Syn. -- Accurate; right, exact; precise; regular; faultless. See Accurate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Corrected; p. pr. & vb. n. Correcting. ] 1. To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is a defect in the first make of some men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. [ 1913 Webster ]

My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

Syn. -- To amend; rectify; emend; reform; improve; chastise; punish; discipline; chasten. See Amend. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Capable of being corrected. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To correct. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake.
Syn. -- correction, rectification. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. correctio: cf. F. correction. ] 1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correction and instruction must both work
Ere this rude beast will profit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correction line (Surv.), a parallel used as a new base line in laying out township in the government lands of the United States. The adoption at certain intervals of a correction line is necessitated by the convergence of of meridians, and the statute requirement that the townships must be squares. --
House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. --
Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correctionnel. ] Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. correct or appropriate behavior.
Syn. -- propriety, properness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. correctif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Qualifying; limiting. “The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle.” Holdsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 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. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Limitation; restriction. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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.

Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing or making correction; corrective. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who corrects. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., orig., a corrector. ] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scot., perh. fr. Celt. cor a corner. ] A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. “Fleet foot on the correi.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Correlated; p. pr. & vb. n. Correlating. ] [ Pref. cor- + relate. ] To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related. [ 1913 Webster ]

Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put in relation with each other; to connect together by the disclosure of a mutual relation; as, to correlate natural phenomena. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. mutually related.
Syn. -- correlative, correlate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Mathematics, statistics) showing a statistically significant relationship between the values of two or more variables; as, The statures of fathers and sons are correlated. [ PJC ]

n. [ LL. correlatio; L. cor- + relatio: cf. F. corrélation. Cf. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Correlation of energy, the relation to one another of different forms of energy; -- usually having some reference to the principle of conservation of energy. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation. --
Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of energy, may exert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. corrélatif. ] Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation, or is correlated, to some other person or thing. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spiritual things and spiritual men are correlatives. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) The antecedent of a pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a correlative relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being correlative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A co-religion&unr_;ist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. correptio, fr. corripere to seize. ] Chiding; reproof; reproach. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Angry, passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding. ] [ Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of them [ the forms of Sidney's sonnets ] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [ Atterbury ] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. correspondance. ] 1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The letters which pass between correspondents. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Correspondencies Same as Correspondence, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correspondant. ] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will be correspondent to command. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a corresponding manner; conformably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corresponding; conformable; adapted. Shak. -- Cor`re*spon"sive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F., fr. Itt. corridpore, or Sp. corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere to run. See Course. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. any relatively narrow passageway or route, such as a strip of land through a foreign territory. [ PJC ]

4. a densely populated stretch of land; as, the Northeast corridor, extending from Richmond, Virginia into Maine. [ PJC ]

. A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [ Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]