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Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits. Behold this cordial julep here That flames and dances in his crystal bounds. Milton.

To rival; to pretend to equal. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin. Coronal suture (Anat.), a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the frontoparietal suture.

One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

ndle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.

The act of reproving or punishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit. Shak.

Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.

Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot.

unication with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macualay.

Tending to strengthen of confirm.

Tending to strengthen; corroborative; as, corroboratory facts.

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

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.

A train of attendants; a procession.

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [Written also cott.]

To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.] Which to these ladies love did countenance. Spenser.

Tending to counteract.

One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat. I fear thou art another counterfeit; And yet, in faith, thou bears'st thee like a king. Shak.

A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods. [Eng.]