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Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator. [Obs.]

To corrupt. See Corrupt. [Obs.] Chauser.

Corruptible. [Obs.]

hanged from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.

Tending to corrupt; full of corruption. [Obs.] "Corruptful bribes." Spenser.

The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.

Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18.

In a manner that corrupts.

The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to "generation". Bacon.…

One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.

Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.

Not susceptible of corruption or decay; incorruptible. Dryden.

In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.

The quality of being corrupt.

A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl.

The corsak.

The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as. a low corsage.

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.

A small foxlike mammal (Cynalopex corsac), found in Central Asia. [Written also corsac.]