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A medicine that strengthens; a corroborant. Wiseman.

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

See Corroboree.

roying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali. Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green- blue solution. Boyle.

Corrosive. [R.] Bp. King.

To eat away by degrees; to corrode. [Obs.] Sandys.

The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.

Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne.

Corrodibility. "Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness." Boyle.

Corrodible. Bailey.

The quality or state of being corrosible. Bailey.

The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion. Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.

of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.

A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson.

by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrug…

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.