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

rse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with. After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macualay.

course by letters. 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.

One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

levant (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at the least. Blackstone.

k) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.

y laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.

o frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey.

here's a gentry cove here. Wit's Recreations (1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. Mrs. Browning.

ved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. Clarendon.

y early life. From their cradles bred together. Shak. A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles. Clarendon.

son. Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow.

ramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.

and lips. -- Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added. -- Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. -- Cream nut, the Brazil nut. -- Cream of lim…

In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.

nner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

iquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum. [Written also creasol.]

ols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.