CPage 429
- English Word Corral Definition 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.
- English Word Corral Definition 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.
- English Word Corraled Definition of Corral
- English Word Corralling Definition of Corral
- English Word Corrasion Definition 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.
- English Word Corrasive Definition Corrosive.
- English Word Correct Definition 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.
- English Word Correct Definition To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
- English Word Correct Definition 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).
- English Word Correct Definition 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.
- English Word Correct Definition 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.
- English Word Correctable Definition Capable of being corrected.
- English Word Corrected Definition of Correct
- English Word Correctible Definition Alt. of Correctable
- English Word Correctify Definition To correct.
- English Word Correcting Definition of Correct
- English Word Correction Definition The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
- English Word Correction Definition The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement.
- English Word Correction Definition 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.
- English Word Correction Definition Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as, the correction of acidity in the stomach.
- English Word Correction Definition An allowance made for inaccuracy in an instrument; as, chronometer correction; compass correction.
- English Word Correctional Definition Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
- English Word Correctioner Definition One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction.
- English Word Corrective Definition Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
- English Word Corrective Definition Qualifying; limiting.
- English Word Corrective Definition 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.
- English Word Corrective Definition Limitation; restriction.
- English Word Correctly Definition In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
- English Word Correctness Definition 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.
- English Word Corrector Definition One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.